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Description: | MANU UNKNOWN Possibly French, with silver turned collar engraved with a tiny butterfly at join between blade and handle, the handle decorated in alternate vertical bands of fluted silver and mother of pearl, with silver acanthus leaf caps to the end 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: | KNIFE : CUTLERY : OLD ENGLISH PATTERN : ENGRAVED BUTTERFLY : WHISTLER CENTENARY : MOTHER OF PEARL : 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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