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Cruet Stand Cruet Stand
This is a cruet stand. It is dated ca. 1810 and we acquired it in 1986. Its medium is copper, silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Sheffield plate is made through coating or plating a piece of copper with a think layer of silver. The resulting metal looked like silver but was much less expensive. The process was developed in 1743 by Thomas Boulsover, a cutler from Sheffield, England. The phenomenal popularity of Sheffield plate, and later by electroplated silver, attests to the economic power of an expanding middle class. (Tools for the Table, 1993).
This object was
bequest of
Walter Phelps Warren.
It is credited Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren.
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 19.7 × 24.4 × 14.9 cm (7 3/4 × 9 5/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Cruet Stand Cruet Stand; England; copper, silver; H x W x D: 19.7 × 24.4 × 14.9 cm (7 3/4 × 9 5/8 × 5 7/8 in.); Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren; 1986-61-19
