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Antique George III Silver Plate Wine / Champagne Cooler Early 19th Century
$926.74
£675
€793.42
CA$1,284.96
A$1,381.87
CHF 738.89
MX$16,664.94
NOK 9,343.74
SEK 8,513.35
DKK 5,928.58
About the Item
A truly superb antique English George III Old Sheffield plate wine / champagne cooler, Circa 1810 in date.
This highly versatile cooler features the "silver on copper" Sheffield England mark, with fabulous embossed repoussé foliage decoration, lion's head handles and raised on a circular flutted base.
The quality and craftsmanship throughout the piece is truly second to none.
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 23 cm x Width 21 cm x Depth 18.5 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 9 inches x Width 8 inches x Depth 7 inches
Old Sheffield Plate - or ‘fused plate’ as it is sometimes known, was the first commercially viable method of plating metal.
The material was accidentally invented by Thomas Boulsover, of Sheffield's Cutlers Company, in 1743. While trying to repair the handle of a customer's decorative knife, he heated it too much and the silver started to melt. When he examined the damaged handle, he noticed that the silver and copper had fused together very strongly. Experiments showed that the two metals behaved as one when he tried to reshape them, even though he could clearly see two different layers.
Boulsover set up in business, funded by Strelley Pegge of Beauchief, and carried out further experiments in which he put a thin sheet of silver on a thick ingot of copper and heated the two together to fuse them. When the composite block was hammered or rolled to make it thinner, the two metals were reduced in thickness at similar rates. Using this method, Boulsover was able to make sheets of metal which had a thin layer of silver on the top surface and a thick layer of copper underneath. When this new material was used to make buttons, they looked and behaved like silver buttons but were a fraction of the cost.
The technique Boulsover developed was to sandwich an ingot of copper between two plates of silver, tightly bind it with wire, heat it in a furnace and then mill it out in to sheet, from which objects could be made.
Our reference: A4342
- Dimensions:Height: 9.06 in (23 cm)Width: 8.27 in (21 cm)Depth: 7.29 in (18.5 cm)
- Style:George III (In the Style Of)
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- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1810
- Condition:
- Seller Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: A43421stDibs: LU950643558782
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