European Metalwork 1603-1850
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 700 items of European metalwork, dating from 1603-1850. This collection comprises of base and precious metals from Europe and England, including pewter, pewter, brass, bronze, iron, steel, silver, and gold. Objects in the collection include metalwork used for domestic, presentation and ecclesiastical purposes, and demonstrate the main technical developments in manufacture and changing fashions of these metal objects from the early seventeenth century through to the first half of the nineteenth century. A substantial part of this collection includes over 400 objects of English, Irish, German, and Dutch silver from this date period, including plates, bowls, spoons, knives, forks, salvers, mugs, tankards, cream jugs, sauce boats, candlesticks, candlesticks, casters, salts, tea caddies, and pots for the preparation of tea, coffee, and chocolate. There is also a substantial collection of cutlery in the collection comprising of eighteenth-century knives and forks, often with ivory handles. There are also examples of snuff boxes, etui, and toilet cases made of silver or other base metals but inlaid with mother of pearl, shagreen, and tortoiseshell. Later base-metal objects from the eighteenth-century include mortars, cauldrons, tankards, mugs, plates, teapots, tea services, jugs, salvers, communion plates and flagons.
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