Burnell and Rowe

Description

Here we have an ornate late Victorian Sterling Silver Cream Jug. The jug has a flat circular base, part reeded decoration around the body and a band of embossed floral decoration framing a bank shield shaped cartouche on each side. The top rim is crimped.

The cream jug was made by Josiah Williams & Co and assayed in London in 1893. Josiah Williams & Co of Bristol were a hugely successful firm of silversmiths, the biggest in England outside of London, Birmingham and Sheffield. They traced their history back to Robert Williams succeeding to the business of William Woodman in around 1838. The firm passed through several generations of the Williams family becoming Josiah Williams & Co in 1879. Later partners included George Jackson and David Fullerton before they became a limited company in 1925. They finally ceased trading around 1940.

Condition is very good, with just a very small ding in the rim of the base and the superficial surface wear that has to be expected after over 130 years of good service. Please make sure to view all the photographs.

The jug measures 9cm / 3.5ins from lip to handle, 6cm / 2.4ins across the top rim and stands 5.7cm / 2.2ins high. It weighs in at a respectable 51.3g / 1.8oz of solid Sterling Silver.

The hallmarks, on the underside of the base, are nice and clear to read. They show the lion passant for Sterling Silver, the leopard's head assay mark for London, the date letter S for 1893 and the G M J makers' mark for George Maudsley Jackson, head of Josiah Williams & Co at this time.

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