Wine Flagon

Manufacturer Fox Family (British)

Place of OriginLondon, England

Date1850

MediumGilded silver

ClassificationMetalwork

Credit LinePurchased with Funds Given by Kathie Levison and Family in Honor of Louise and Stanley Levison

Object number

1998.3

Not on View

Label TextTwenty-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.Published ReferencesOfficial Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, London, 1851, p. 24, Class 23, no. 102.

The Crystal Palace and its Contents Being an Illustrated Cyclopaedia of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, London, 1851, p. 156.

Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue, London, 1851, facs. New York, 1995, illus. p. 140.

Culme, Nineteenth-Century Silver, p. 77.

Culme, Directory vol. 1, p. 281 n. 15

Exhibition HistoryLondon, 1851, Crystal Palace, “The Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations”