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Enamel Sample

ca. 1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Squat cylindrical glass pharmacy jar with grey metal screw cap stamped ‘WELCOME CHEMICALWORKS OVER 240 AWARDS’; contains lumps of blue enamel.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Industrially made glass jar with die-stamped metal screw cap, containing lumps of blue enamel
Brief description
Squat cylindrical glass pharmacy jar with grey metal screw cap, containing lumps of blue enamel manufactured by Louis Millenet Petit Fils of Geneva, Switzerland, about 1900
Physical description
Squat cylindrical glass pharmacy jar with grey metal screw cap stamped ‘WELCOME CHEMICALWORKS OVER 240 AWARDS’; contains lumps of blue enamel.
Dimensions
  • Approximate height: 6.5cm
  • Approximate diameter: 4.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'WELCOME CHEMICALWORKS OVER 240 AWARDS' (Stamped on metal cap)
Object history
Provenance: enamel samples C.69 to C.92-2002 are from the effects of Ezra Dearing (born William Jones), who had studied at the RCA and was a potter and modeller and studied gold and silversmithing. He bought the enamels second-hand out of interest but the vendor's daughter did not think he used them himself.
Collection
Accession number
C.83-2002

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Record createdApril 5, 2005
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