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Enamel Sample

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

Slightly tapering cylindrical glass pharmacy jar with stepped neck and ground glass stopper (chipped); contains lumps of brown enamel and folded brown paper envelope printed 'Louis MILLENET Petit Fils Fabrique d’Emaux & Couleurs Genève' and inscribed with 'Brun leger No. 15' and the weight '60 grams' in ink.

Object details

Category
Enamels
Object type
Enamel sample
Materials and techniques
Industrially made glass jar with ground glass stopper, containing lumps of brown enamel
Brief description
Slightly tapering cylindrical glass pharmacy jar with ground glass stopper, containing lumps of light brown enamel manufactured by Louis Millenet Petit Fils of Geneva, Switzerland, about 1900
Physical description
Slightly tapering cylindrical glass pharmacy jar with stepped neck and ground glass stopper (chipped); contains lumps of brown enamel and folded brown paper envelope printed 'Louis MILLENET Petit Fils Fabrique d’Emaux & Couleurs Genève' and inscribed with 'Brun leger No. 15' and the weight '60 grams' in ink.
Dimensions
  • Approximate height: 10cm
  • Approximate diameter: 4.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Louis MILLENET Petit Fils Fabrique d’Emaux & Couleurs Genève' (Printed on paper label)
  • 'Brun leger No. 15' (Inscribed in ink on paper label)
  • '60 grams' (Inscribed on paper label in ink)
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
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.85-2002

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Record createdApril 5, 2005
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O110841/enamel-sample-millenet/
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