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Description: | Lid engraved with a butterfly. No hallmarks visible. CRE UNKNOWN; This rectangular silver pan, is a toasted cheese, or breakfast dish. Hot water was put in the base of the dish, below a liner, to keep food warm. This allowed guests to come down to breakfast when it suited them. The ebonised fruitwood handle unscrews to reveal the hole where hot water was put in.The warmer is designed so that the lid can be left up, by slotting it over a rectangular tab at the back of the dish. Whistler had the top of the lid engraved slightly off-centre with his distinctive butterfly design.
This is part of a collection of over 350 pieces of flatware and cutlery from the Whistler Estate. Whistler's silver was a working collection of late 18th and early 19th century Dutch and English ware, acquired in the late 1880s and 1890s with his wife Beatrix Whistler. A plate book (coll. Glasgow University Library Special Collections, ref W NB7) records some purchases. Whistler's taste was for elegant neo-classical pieces which he often had marked with his distinctive butterfly design. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | WHISTLER CENTENARY : SILVER PLATE : BUTTERFLY : SHEFFIELD PLATE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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