Tin
ca. 1900 (made)
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Cylindrical tin; the ends stamped 'BOURNVILLE COCOA' and 'BOURNVILLE Cadbury ENGLAND'); holds nine brown paper envelopes each containing lumps of enamel colours. Each envelope is printed 'ENCHANTILLON Louis Millenet Petit Fils Fabrique d'Emaux & Couleurs Genève' and 'Le kg. Fr.' and each bears the name of the colours and price per kilogram, either stamped in capitals in ink or inscribed in pen and ink, as follows: 'OPALE ORIENTALE 35 [Francs per kg]', 'BLEU DRAPETO 25 [Francs per kg]', 'LILAS TRANSLUCIDE V 15 [Francs per kg]', 'Opale absinthe No. 18 22 [Francs per kg]', 'Opale pervenche No. 35 22 [Francs per kg]', Opale cha ….. [illegible] No. 33 23 [Francs per kg]', 'Opale papillon No. 23 21 [Francs per kg]', 'Opale amarande No. 8 25 [Francs per kg]', and 'Opale arelquine No. 31 23 [Francs per kg].
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-plated steel box containing printed and inscribed paper envelopes containing enamels |
| Brief description | Bournville cocoa tin containing nine brown paper envelopes, each containing lumps of enamels manufactured by Louis Millenet Petit Fils of Geneva, Switzerland, about 1900 |
| Physical description | Cylindrical tin; the ends stamped 'BOURNVILLE COCOA' and 'BOURNVILLE Cadbury ENGLAND'); holds nine brown paper envelopes each containing lumps of enamel colours. Each envelope is printed 'ENCHANTILLON Louis Millenet Petit Fils Fabrique d'Emaux & Couleurs Genève' and 'Le kg. Fr.' and each bears the name of the colours and price per kilogram, either stamped in capitals in ink or inscribed in pen and ink, as follows: 'OPALE ORIENTALE 35 [Francs per kg]', 'BLEU DRAPETO 25 [Francs per kg]', 'LILAS TRANSLUCIDE V 15 [Francs per kg]', 'Opale absinthe No. 18 22 [Francs per kg]', 'Opale pervenche No. 35 22 [Francs per kg]', Opale cha ….. [illegible] No. 33 23 [Francs per kg]', 'Opale papillon No. 23 21 [Francs per kg]', 'Opale amarande No. 8 25 [Francs per kg]', and 'Opale arelquine No. 31 23 [Francs per kg]. |
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| 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.69-2002 |
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| Record created | September 10, 2003 |
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