biscuit-jar;
tea-set
- Museum number
- 1981,0311.5
- Description
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Biscuit jar with lid; from tea-set; silver and Brazilian rosewood; set with rectangular panels of wood down the narrow sides; the lid has quadrant-shaped wood handles; the interior is gilded.
- Production date
- 1929 (designed)
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 millimetres (with handles)
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Height: 70 millimetres
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Length: 124 millimetres
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Weight: 438 grammes
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Width: 74 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- In set with 1981,0311.2-4
Text from J. Rudoe, 'Decorative Arts 1850-1950. A catalogue of the British Museum collection'. 2nd ed. no.248d.
For a full discussion of this teaset see curator's comments for 'Decorative Arts 1850-1950' Cat. no. 248a (1981.0311.2).
Information supplementary to Rudoe 1994:
See also M. Collins, 'Towards Post-Modernism, Design since 1851', London, British Museum, revised ed. 1994, fig. 74.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012-2013 Nov-Mar, Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Treasures of the World's Cultures
- Associated events
- Designed for: Exposition de joaillerie et d'orfèvrerie du Musée Galliéra 1929
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Acquisition notes
- The donors acquired the set from George Attenborough & Sons, silver and jewellery merchants of Fleet Street in 1966; according to information supplied by Attenborough's at that time, the set was originally purchased from them in 1930.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1981,0311.5
