Wine Flagon
Manufacturer: Fox Family (British)
Date: 1850
Medium: Gilded silver
Classification: Metalwork
Credit Line: Purchased with Funds Given by Kathie Levison and Family in Honor of Louise and Stanley Levison
Object number: 1998.3
Label Text:Twenty-two inches high with a capacity of more than three gallons, this monumental wine flagon was produced as a showpiece by the London silver firm of Charles Thomas and George Fox for retailers Lambert & Rawlings’ display at the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. According to the official Crystal Palace guidebook, “One workman employed twelve weeks in its manufacture, and the parcel gilding and finishing occupied two weeks….” Lambert & Rawlings were awarded a Prize Medal for their “carefully executed, elegant and novel” silver.
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