Not on display

Enamel Sample

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

Cylindrical glass jar with galvanized metal screw cap (now corroded), containing powdered green enamel and loose label (now illegible).

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Industrially made glass jar with metal screw top, containing powdered enamel
Brief description
Glass jar with corroded metal screw cap, containing powdered green enamel manufactured by Louis Millenet Petit Fils of Geneva, Switzerland, about 1900
Physical description
Cylindrical glass jar with galvanized metal screw cap (now corroded), containing powdered green enamel and loose label (now illegible).
Dimensions
  • Height: 7cm
  • Diameter: 6.2cm
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.70-2002

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Record createdSeptember 10, 2003
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