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Standard: Lion passant
Assay: Leopard's head, crowned
Date: "F" (1801-2)
Maker: WE/WF (Wm Eley & Wm Fearn)
Duty: Monarch's head
engraved with butterfly MANU Eley, William & Fearn, William Old English pattern with butterfly engraved to top of the front of the stem. This is part of a collection of over 350 pieces of flatware and cutlery from the estate of James McNeill Whistler. Whistler's silver was a domestic 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: | SPOON : CUTLERY : OLD ENGLISH PATTERN : ENGRAVED BUTTERFLY : WHISTLER CENTENARY : IAA : | 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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