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A Victorian silver-gilt-mounted cut-glass claret jug, William Leuchars for Leuchars & Son, London, 1
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Description
A Victorian silver-gilt-mounted cut-glass claret jug
William Leuchars for Leuchars & Son, London, 1885
the panelled 'rock crystal' glass body decorated with birds amongst fruiting foliage in the manner of William Fritche, the silver-gilt base formed as two bird chicks with outstretched wings, the handle formed as a dragon reaching for the frog finial of the cork stopper,
height 31cm., 12 1/4in.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 27 February 1971, lot 88
Literature
This claret jug is illustrated in Culme, J., Nineteenth Century Silver, London 1977, p.184.
Catalogue note
An identical claret jug, William Leuchars, London, 1995, was sold at Christie's, London, 17 March 1999, lot 1.
Leuchars & Son
Leuchars & Son of 38 and 39 Piccadilly, London, and 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, was established in 1794 at 47 Piccadilly, opposite St. James’s Church, by James Leuchars (1754-1823), a perfumer and hairdresser1 and (in 1805) fancy head dress maker to the Duchess of York. The business was continued by Leuchars’s second wife, Lucy (née Friend, 1777-1847) and their son, William (1804-1871), trading as Leuchars & Son.
‘THE Nobility, Gentry, and Visitors to the Metropolis are respectfully solicited by L. LEUCHARS and SON to view their extensive stock of DRESSING CASES, writing and envelope cases and desks, buhl and ebony inkstands, tea chests, chess and backgammon men and boards, and an infinite variety of useful and ornamental articles well adapted for presents. L. Leuchars and Son take this opportunity of assuring their patrons that, while they offer the guarantee of a fifty years’ established reputation for the superior quality of all goods made and sold by them, no respectable house shall be more moderate in its charges. - 38, Piccadilly, three doors from Sackville-street.’2
William Leuchars’s son, also William (1841-1909) continued Leuchars & Son. It was under his tenure that Leuchars absorbed the manufacturing goldsmiths and jewellers, H.W. & L. Dee of Sherwood Street, Golden Square, Soho following the death of Louis Dee (1831-1884). Although the name Leuchars & Son continued to be used until the firm’s closure in 1902, the firm, and its retail premises at 38 and 39 Piccadilly, together with the Sherwood Street workshops, were acquired in 1888 by Asprey & Son of New Bond Street.3
William Fritsche
The glass engraver William Fritsche (Wilhelm Fritsche), who was born at Meisterdorf in Bohemia (Austria) in 1852 and who became a naturalised British subject on 11 July 1895,4 joined Thomas Webb & Sons, glass manufacturers of Stourbridge, in 1868. He is remembered chiefly for developing and executing a style of glass engraving known as ‘Rock Crystal.’ At a meeting of the Dudley and District Art Circle on 17 January 1931, Albert Oakden, principal of the Brierley Hill School of Art, remarked during a lecture on glass making that the finest example of ‘Rock Crystal’ engraving was executed by Fritsche. This piece, known as the ‘Fritsche Ewer’ is in the Corning Museum of Glass.5 Oakden said that, ‘It was in hand over two years and completed in 1886. It was described as being as beautiful in thought as in execution, a monument to poetic imagination, natural artistic ability, indomitable patience and untiring industry, and a lasting refutation of the oft-repeated croak that the craftsman of to-day has lost that love for his work which distinguished the workers of old.’6
Between 1881 and 1892 Fritsche was also licensee of the Red Lion public house, Brettell Lane, Amblecote, near Stourbridge. He died on 24 March 1924 and is buried with his wife, Mary Jane (née Hillman, 1853-1917), whom he married in 1881, in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Stourbridge.
Notes
1. For an advertisement for Leuchars’s ‘PATENT TETES’ ‘ART EQUAL TO NATURE,’ and ‘A large and elegant assortment of Braids, Fillets, &c., &c.,’ see The Morning Post and FashionableWorld, London, Tuesday, 22 March 1796, p. 1c
2. The Morning Chronicle, London, Saturday, 29 March 1845, p. 1f
3. John Culme, The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, Woodbridge, 1987, vol. I, pp. 290 and 291
4. The London Gazette, London, Friday, 2 August 1895, p. 4367. His parents were Ignatz and Josephine Fritsche (National Archives, Kew, Naturalisation Certificates and Declarations, HO 334/ 22, no. 8427
5. Access no. 54.2.16. https://www.cmog.org/artwork/ewer-2, accessed 23 September 2023
6. DudleyChronicle, Dudley, Thursday, 22 January 1931, p. 7d
Additional Notices & Disclaimers
Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.
William Leuchars for Leuchars & Son, London, 1885
the panelled 'rock crystal' glass body decorated with birds amongst fruiting foliage in the manner of William Fritche, the silver-gilt base formed as two bird chicks with outstretched wings, the handle formed as a dragon reaching for the frog finial of the cork stopper,
height 31cm., 12 1/4in.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 27 February 1971, lot 88
Literature
This claret jug is illustrated in Culme, J., Nineteenth Century Silver, London 1977, p.184.
Catalogue note
An identical claret jug, William Leuchars, London, 1995, was sold at Christie's, London, 17 March 1999, lot 1.
Leuchars & Son
Leuchars & Son of 38 and 39 Piccadilly, London, and 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, was established in 1794 at 47 Piccadilly, opposite St. James’s Church, by James Leuchars (1754-1823), a perfumer and hairdresser1 and (in 1805) fancy head dress maker to the Duchess of York. The business was continued by Leuchars’s second wife, Lucy (née Friend, 1777-1847) and their son, William (1804-1871), trading as Leuchars & Son.
‘THE Nobility, Gentry, and Visitors to the Metropolis are respectfully solicited by L. LEUCHARS and SON to view their extensive stock of DRESSING CASES, writing and envelope cases and desks, buhl and ebony inkstands, tea chests, chess and backgammon men and boards, and an infinite variety of useful and ornamental articles well adapted for presents. L. Leuchars and Son take this opportunity of assuring their patrons that, while they offer the guarantee of a fifty years’ established reputation for the superior quality of all goods made and sold by them, no respectable house shall be more moderate in its charges. - 38, Piccadilly, three doors from Sackville-street.’2
William Leuchars’s son, also William (1841-1909) continued Leuchars & Son. It was under his tenure that Leuchars absorbed the manufacturing goldsmiths and jewellers, H.W. & L. Dee of Sherwood Street, Golden Square, Soho following the death of Louis Dee (1831-1884). Although the name Leuchars & Son continued to be used until the firm’s closure in 1902, the firm, and its retail premises at 38 and 39 Piccadilly, together with the Sherwood Street workshops, were acquired in 1888 by Asprey & Son of New Bond Street.3
William Fritsche
The glass engraver William Fritsche (Wilhelm Fritsche), who was born at Meisterdorf in Bohemia (Austria) in 1852 and who became a naturalised British subject on 11 July 1895,4 joined Thomas Webb & Sons, glass manufacturers of Stourbridge, in 1868. He is remembered chiefly for developing and executing a style of glass engraving known as ‘Rock Crystal.’ At a meeting of the Dudley and District Art Circle on 17 January 1931, Albert Oakden, principal of the Brierley Hill School of Art, remarked during a lecture on glass making that the finest example of ‘Rock Crystal’ engraving was executed by Fritsche. This piece, known as the ‘Fritsche Ewer’ is in the Corning Museum of Glass.5 Oakden said that, ‘It was in hand over two years and completed in 1886. It was described as being as beautiful in thought as in execution, a monument to poetic imagination, natural artistic ability, indomitable patience and untiring industry, and a lasting refutation of the oft-repeated croak that the craftsman of to-day has lost that love for his work which distinguished the workers of old.’6
Between 1881 and 1892 Fritsche was also licensee of the Red Lion public house, Brettell Lane, Amblecote, near Stourbridge. He died on 24 March 1924 and is buried with his wife, Mary Jane (née Hillman, 1853-1917), whom he married in 1881, in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Stourbridge.
Notes
1. For an advertisement for Leuchars’s ‘PATENT TETES’ ‘ART EQUAL TO NATURE,’ and ‘A large and elegant assortment of Braids, Fillets, &c., &c.,’ see The Morning Post and FashionableWorld, London, Tuesday, 22 March 1796, p. 1c
2. The Morning Chronicle, London, Saturday, 29 March 1845, p. 1f
3. John Culme, The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, Woodbridge, 1987, vol. I, pp. 290 and 291
4. The London Gazette, London, Friday, 2 August 1895, p. 4367. His parents were Ignatz and Josephine Fritsche (National Archives, Kew, Naturalisation Certificates and Declarations, HO 334/ 22, no. 8427
5. Access no. 54.2.16. https://www.cmog.org/artwork/ewer-2, accessed 23 September 2023
6. DudleyChronicle, Dudley, Thursday, 22 January 1931, p. 7d
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A Victorian silver-gilt-mounted cut-glass claret jug
William Leuchars for Leuchars & Son, London, 1885
the panelled 'rock crystal' glass body decorated with birds amongst fruiting foliage in the manner of William Fritche, the silver-gilt base formed as two bird chicks with outstretched wings, the handle formed as a dragon reaching for the frog finial of the cork stopper,
height 31cm., 12 1/4in.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 27 February 1971, lot 88
Literature
This claret jug is illustrated in Culme, J., Nineteenth Century Silver, London 1977, p.184.
Catalogue note
An identical claret jug, William Leuchars, London, 1995, was sold at Christie's, London, 17 March 1999, lot 1.
Leuchars & Son
Leuchars & Son of 38 and 39 Piccadilly, London, and 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, was established in 1794 at 47 Piccadilly, opposite St. James’s Church, by James Leuchars (1754-1823), a perfumer and hairdresser1 and (in 1805) fancy head dress maker to the Duchess of York. The business was continued by Leuchars’s second wife, Lucy (née Friend, 1777-1847) and their son, William (1804-1871), trading as Leuchars & Son.
‘THE Nobility, Gentry, and Visitors to the Metropolis are respectfully solicited by L. LEUCHARS and SON to view their extensive stock of DRESSING CASES, writing and envelope cases and desks, buhl and ebony inkstands, tea chests, chess and backgammon men and boards, and an infinite variety of useful and ornamental articles well adapted for presents. L. Leuchars and Son take this opportunity of assuring their patrons that, while they offer the guarantee of a fifty years’ established reputation for the superior quality of all goods made and sold by them, no respectable house shall be more moderate in its charges. - 38, Piccadilly, three doors from Sackville-street.’2
William Leuchars’s son, also William (1841-1909) continued Leuchars & Son. It was under his tenure that Leuchars absorbed the manufacturing goldsmiths and jewellers, H.W. & L. Dee of Sherwood Street, Golden Square, Soho following the death of Louis Dee (1831-1884). Although the name Leuchars & Son continued to be used until the firm’s closure in 1902, the firm, and its retail premises at 38 and 39 Piccadilly, together with the Sherwood Street workshops, were acquired in 1888 by Asprey & Son of New Bond Street.3
William Fritsche
The glass engraver William Fritsche (Wilhelm Fritsche), who was born at Meisterdorf in Bohemia (Austria) in 1852 and who became a naturalised British subject on 11 July 1895,4 joined Thomas Webb & Sons, glass manufacturers of Stourbridge, in 1868. He is remembered chiefly for developing and executing a style of glass engraving known as ‘Rock Crystal.’ At a meeting of the Dudley and District Art Circle on 17 January 1931, Albert Oakden, principal of the Brierley Hill School of Art, remarked during a lecture on glass making that the finest example of ‘Rock Crystal’ engraving was executed by Fritsche. This piece, known as the ‘Fritsche Ewer’ is in the Corning Museum of Glass.5 Oakden said that, ‘It was in hand over two years and completed in 1886. It was described as being as beautiful in thought as in execution, a monument to poetic imagination, natural artistic ability, indomitable patience and untiring industry, and a lasting refutation of the oft-repeated croak that the craftsman of to-day has lost that love for his work which distinguished the workers of old.’6
Between 1881 and 1892 Fritsche was also licensee of the Red Lion public house, Brettell Lane, Amblecote, near Stourbridge. He died on 24 March 1924 and is buried with his wife, Mary Jane (née Hillman, 1853-1917), whom he married in 1881, in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Stourbridge.
Notes
1. For an advertisement for Leuchars’s ‘PATENT TETES’ ‘ART EQUAL TO NATURE,’ and ‘A large and elegant assortment of Braids, Fillets, &c., &c.,’ see The Morning Post and FashionableWorld, London, Tuesday, 22 March 1796, p. 1c
2. The Morning Chronicle, London, Saturday, 29 March 1845, p. 1f
3. John Culme, The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, Woodbridge, 1987, vol. I, pp. 290 and 291
4. The London Gazette, London, Friday, 2 August 1895, p. 4367. His parents were Ignatz and Josephine Fritsche (National Archives, Kew, Naturalisation Certificates and Declarations, HO 334/ 22, no. 8427
5. Access no. 54.2.16. https://www.cmog.org/artwork/ewer-2, accessed 23 September 2023
6. DudleyChronicle, Dudley, Thursday, 22 January 1931, p. 7d
Additional Notices & Disclaimers
Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.
William Leuchars for Leuchars & Son, London, 1885
the panelled 'rock crystal' glass body decorated with birds amongst fruiting foliage in the manner of William Fritche, the silver-gilt base formed as two bird chicks with outstretched wings, the handle formed as a dragon reaching for the frog finial of the cork stopper,
height 31cm., 12 1/4in.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 27 February 1971, lot 88
Literature
This claret jug is illustrated in Culme, J., Nineteenth Century Silver, London 1977, p.184.
Catalogue note
An identical claret jug, William Leuchars, London, 1995, was sold at Christie's, London, 17 March 1999, lot 1.
Leuchars & Son
Leuchars & Son of 38 and 39 Piccadilly, London, and 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris, was established in 1794 at 47 Piccadilly, opposite St. James’s Church, by James Leuchars (1754-1823), a perfumer and hairdresser1 and (in 1805) fancy head dress maker to the Duchess of York. The business was continued by Leuchars’s second wife, Lucy (née Friend, 1777-1847) and their son, William (1804-1871), trading as Leuchars & Son.
‘THE Nobility, Gentry, and Visitors to the Metropolis are respectfully solicited by L. LEUCHARS and SON to view their extensive stock of DRESSING CASES, writing and envelope cases and desks, buhl and ebony inkstands, tea chests, chess and backgammon men and boards, and an infinite variety of useful and ornamental articles well adapted for presents. L. Leuchars and Son take this opportunity of assuring their patrons that, while they offer the guarantee of a fifty years’ established reputation for the superior quality of all goods made and sold by them, no respectable house shall be more moderate in its charges. - 38, Piccadilly, three doors from Sackville-street.’2
William Leuchars’s son, also William (1841-1909) continued Leuchars & Son. It was under his tenure that Leuchars absorbed the manufacturing goldsmiths and jewellers, H.W. & L. Dee of Sherwood Street, Golden Square, Soho following the death of Louis Dee (1831-1884). Although the name Leuchars & Son continued to be used until the firm’s closure in 1902, the firm, and its retail premises at 38 and 39 Piccadilly, together with the Sherwood Street workshops, were acquired in 1888 by Asprey & Son of New Bond Street.3
William Fritsche
The glass engraver William Fritsche (Wilhelm Fritsche), who was born at Meisterdorf in Bohemia (Austria) in 1852 and who became a naturalised British subject on 11 July 1895,4 joined Thomas Webb & Sons, glass manufacturers of Stourbridge, in 1868. He is remembered chiefly for developing and executing a style of glass engraving known as ‘Rock Crystal.’ At a meeting of the Dudley and District Art Circle on 17 January 1931, Albert Oakden, principal of the Brierley Hill School of Art, remarked during a lecture on glass making that the finest example of ‘Rock Crystal’ engraving was executed by Fritsche. This piece, known as the ‘Fritsche Ewer’ is in the Corning Museum of Glass.5 Oakden said that, ‘It was in hand over two years and completed in 1886. It was described as being as beautiful in thought as in execution, a monument to poetic imagination, natural artistic ability, indomitable patience and untiring industry, and a lasting refutation of the oft-repeated croak that the craftsman of to-day has lost that love for his work which distinguished the workers of old.’6
Between 1881 and 1892 Fritsche was also licensee of the Red Lion public house, Brettell Lane, Amblecote, near Stourbridge. He died on 24 March 1924 and is buried with his wife, Mary Jane (née Hillman, 1853-1917), whom he married in 1881, in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Stourbridge.
Notes
1. For an advertisement for Leuchars’s ‘PATENT TETES’ ‘ART EQUAL TO NATURE,’ and ‘A large and elegant assortment of Braids, Fillets, &c., &c.,’ see The Morning Post and FashionableWorld, London, Tuesday, 22 March 1796, p. 1c
2. The Morning Chronicle, London, Saturday, 29 March 1845, p. 1f
3. John Culme, The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, Woodbridge, 1987, vol. I, pp. 290 and 291
4. The London Gazette, London, Friday, 2 August 1895, p. 4367. His parents were Ignatz and Josephine Fritsche (National Archives, Kew, Naturalisation Certificates and Declarations, HO 334/ 22, no. 8427
5. Access no. 54.2.16. https://www.cmog.org/artwork/ewer-2, accessed 23 September 2023
6. DudleyChronicle, Dudley, Thursday, 22 January 1931, p. 7d
Additional Notices & Disclaimers
Please note that Condition 12 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot.
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