Chats on Old Sheffield Plate

INDEX

• Abbotsford, Scott's introduction of gas at, 116
• Adam design, example of hot water jug, 228
• Adam style of design, the, 85
• Addison omits Shakespeare from list of great poets, 51
• Advertisement of Pinchbeck (1732), 54
• Allan David, copyist of old masters, 21
• Anonymity of Sheffield plated ware, 289
• Arrows, the crossed, as a mark, various types of, 286
• Artistic value of old Sheffield plate, 60, 61
• Assay offices, examples of marks used at, 274-282

• "Below the salt," its meaning, 136
• Birmingham Assay Office, institution of, 41
• Birmingham—
  hall marks on silver plate, 281
  its silver plated marks registered at Sheffield, 68
  silver platers, rise of, 68
• Boulsover, Thomas (1704-1788), inventor of Sheffield silver plating, 46
  obituary notice of, 47
• Boulton, Matthew, Birmingham (Boulton and Fothergill), (M. Boulton and Co.), 68
• Buckle makers, the, 262
• Buttons made by Thomas Boulsover, 47, 53
• Button makers in Dublin (1792), 73

• Cabinet makers, French, stamped marks of, 237
• Caddies, tea, and their makers, 196
• Cadman, Robert, and Co., (Sheffield), 89
• Cake baskets, Sheffield plated, 165
• Candelabra—
  and candlesticks, 79-131
  old silver, London makers of, 274
• Candelabrum, the—
  its varieties, 90
  the tri-form, 115
• Candlestick—
  the chamber, 119
  the table, 120
• Candlesticks—
  early types, 81
  from eighteenth century Pattern Books, 74, 86, 89
  old silver, London makers of, 274
  Sheffield plated, their price, 269
• Carteret's "Drunken Administration," 48
• Centrepiece, the, 245
• Centrepieces, old silver, London makers of, 274
• Chair-backs, a test to apply to their beauty, 109
• Chester hall marks on silver plate, 277
• Chester—Liverpool, and Birmingham silversmiths' work assayed at, 278
• China factories, Derby and Worcester, origin of, 49
• Chippendale chair-backs, the test of their beauty, 109
• Christie's, price of Sheffield plated candlesticks sold at, 269
• Close plating, 261
• Coasters (decanter stands), 166
• Coffee pots, 206
• Coffee pots, old silver, London makers of, 274
• Contemporary silver designs in Sheffield plated period, 274, 278, 281, 282
• Continental trade, Sheffield platers and, 154
• Copyists of old masters, 21
• Cream jugs, old silver, London makers of, 274

• Danger of public clamour for marks, 293
• Date of examples, Sheffield plated, absence of proof of, 289
• Death penalties for tampering with silver plate, Geo. III (1815), 48
• Decanter stands, 166
• Decadence in design, in candlesticks, 126
• Design Book, Sheffield Plate, eighteenth century, 139
• Designer, the, his greatest asset, what to omit, 109
• Destruction of old Sheffield plate, 253
• Die work in Sheffield plating, 82
• Dies, destruction of old Sheffield plate, 250
• Dinner table, passing of the, 254
• Dish rings, Sheffield plated, 177
• Drunken habits of eighteenth century, 189
• Duties on silver, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 48

• Economic substitution, 22
• Electro plating, its invention, 290
• Empire style candelabrum, 116
• English craftsmanship, imitativeness of, 27
• English porcelain factories, origin of Derby and Worcester, 49
• Engraving, not an imitative art, 28
• Engravings, when printed in colours, imitative art, 28
• Epigram by Porson on Pitt, 189
  on weight in plate, 202
• European imitativeness, 25
• Exeter hall marks on silver plate, 277

• Factory system, the, 268
• Fashion of buckles, decline of the, 263
• Foreign policy, Carteret's pronouncement on his, 48
• Foreign silver plating in Sheffield style, 290
• Fraud by silversmiths, penalties against, 35
• French—
  marks on silver-plated ware, 290
  plating, an early process, 39
  plated ware, regulations regarding, 209

• Garrick, David, his revival of Shakespeare, 50
• Gas introduced to light Abbotsford, 116
• George IV and the fashion of buckles, 263
• German silver and other white metals, 267
• Gin bottle covered with bead work, 26
• Glass designs imitate silver, 35
• Glass, Venetian, copied in Germany, 25
• Goltzins simulates prints of old masters, 20
• Grease pans, their indication of date, 99
• Guido picture fabricated by Mignard, 20

• Hall marks on old silver, illustrated, 275, 279, 283
• Hancock, Joseph (Sheffield), his share in developing silver plating, 61
• Herculaneum—
  design from, 116
  influence of art of, 116
• Hogarth, "the Scottish," David Allan, 21

• Imitativeness, European, 25
• Imitation—
  as a fine art, 19
  of hall marks by Sheffield platers, 289, 290
  decadence of wood engraving, 41
• Imitations of Sheffield plate, 158
• Inkstands, 181
• Invention of silver plating by fusion, 45
• Ireland, silver plating by fusion carried on in, 71
• Irish dish or potato rings, 177
• Irish Government offers premium (1783) for plated ware made in Ireland, 71
• Irish hall marks on silver plate, 281, 282
• Irish plated skewer marked "Sly," 262

• Jackson, John, copyist of Reynolds, 21
• Jugs, hot water, 227

• Kettles, tea, 205
• Knick-knacks, a world of (eighteenth century), 54
• Knife handle of stamped Sheffield plate, 50

• Lamb, Charles, quoted, 136
• Liverpool silversmiths' work assayed at Chester, 278
• Liverseege, Henry, copyist of Vandyck, 21
• London, silver plating carried on at, 68
• Louis XIV—
  orders silver plate to be melted, 23
  his extravagant use of silver plate, 23
  

• Marks—
  on French cabinet work, 237
  on porcelain, 232
  on Sheffield plate, 62, 63, 231;(illustrated), 286-293
  (Sheffield plate) fear of platers to stamp any, 64, 67
  on Sheffield plate resembling silver marks, 62, 63
  on silver, position of, 273
  
• Melting down of old Sheffield plate, 253
• Mignard fabricates a Guido picture, 20
• Missionary-fostered art, 26
• Mustard pot, the, 148

• Newcastle-upon-Tyne—
  hall marks on silver plate, 277
  silversmiths at, 278
• Nottingham, silver plated ware made at, 68
• Nozzles, removable, their indication of date, 96

• Old masters, drawings of, copied by David Allan, 21
• Old masters, prints of, simulated by Goltzins, 20
• Original silver plate design copied by platers, 143
• Ornament—
  spiral, its abuse, 106
  useless, failure of, 110

• Parliamentary Committee on conduct of assay offices (1773), 63
• Parsons and Co., Pattern Book, 181
• Patch boxes, Sheffield plated, 54
• Pattern Books, eighteenth century, silver platers', 74, 86, 89, 139
• Penalties—
  counterfeiting Duty Mark (1815) punishable by death, 48
  for fraud in old plate, 36, 62, 63
  for wrongly stamping Sheffield plate, 67
• Petition of the buckle makers, the, 264
• Pinchbeck, Christopher, and his imitations, 54
• Pipe lighter—
  Sheffield plate, 241
  illustrated, 239
• Pitt, epigrams by Porson on, 189
• Plating, silver—
  early, 35
  pre-fusion period, 35, 39
  process described, 58
  used fraudulently, 35
• Pompeii, influence of art of, 116
• Poor relations and their foibles, 136
• Porcelain factories, Derby and Worcester, origin of, 49
• Potato rings, Sheffield plated, 177
• Potters, copy of silversmiths' designs by, 28, 31
• Pottery, French, supplants silver plate, 24
• Pounce pot, the, and its use, 182
• Prince of Wales's feathers used in design, 153
• Process of Sheffield silver plating described, 58

• Rise in value of old Sheffield plate, 269
• Romney picture of Serena (Miss Sneyd), 119
• Ruskin and copies of Turner drawings, 22

• "Salt, below the," its meaning, 136
• Salt cellar, the, 135
  the new style, 147
• Sauce boats, old silver, London makers of, 274
• Scott, Sir Walter, his introduction of gas at Abbotsford, 116
• Scottish hall marks on silver plate, 281
• Seams a test of genuineness in Sheffield plate, 293
• Sevrès porcelain makers' marks, 232
• Shakespeare neglected by Addison and Steele, 51
  revival of study of, 50
• Sheffield—
  Assay Office, institution of, 40, 41
  hall marks on silver plate, 277
  origin of silver plating at, 39
• Sheffield plate—
  old, destruction of, 253
  wonderful technique of, 161
• Sheffield platers—
  as to their originality, 143
  deterred from placing any marks, 64, 67
• Sheffield silver plate, makers of, eighteenth century, 278
• Sheffield, silver plating process described, 58
• Silver—
  duties in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 48
  price of, in eighteenth century, 47
  lustre ware imitates silver plate, 35
  marks, simulation of, by marks on Sheffield plate, 62, 63
  plate designs copied by platers, 143
  plate made at Sheffield assayed in London, 63
  plate, value of hall marks on, 274
  plating at Sheffield, origin of, 39
  plating by fusion, its invention, 45
  plating, early, 35
  plating, the great period, 73
• Silversmiths—
  copy of potters' designs by, 28, 31
  list of late eighteenth century, 77
  (London) who influenced Sheffield platers, 274
• Simulation in art, 25, 28
• Smith, J. R., engraving of Serena after Romney, 119
• Spiral forms in candelabra, 100
• Spectator, advertisement in (1712), 140
• Spurious candelabra and their errors, 95
• Steele, Richard, omits Shakespeare from list of great poets, 51
• Steel toys, the, of Sheffield, 140
• Sugar basin, the, 210
  basins, old silver, London makers of, 274
• Supper table, the, 238

• Taper holders, 181
• Tea and coffee sets, 201
• Tea caddies and their makers, 196
• Tea kettles, 205
• Teapots, 189
  old silver, London makers of, 274
• Tea urn, the, 202
• Technique, wonderful, of Sheffield plate, 161
• Tinder boxes, Sheffield plated, 286
• Toasted cheese dishes, old silver, London makers of, 274
• Trencher salts, their use, 147
• Tureens—
  old silver, London makers of, 274
  soup, 220
• Turner drawings, facsimiles of, 22
• Tutenag, an alloy of antimony and zinc, 267

• Urn, the tea, 202
• Utility the true test of ornament, 110

• Value of old Sheffield plate, 269

• Ward, his replicas of Turner drawings, 22
• Wedgwood, Josiah—
  shell-forms, adoption of, 31
  carved wood models, use of, 31
  indebted to metal-workers of Sheffield, 32
• White metals, German silver, etc., 267
• Wine coolers, old silver, London makers of, 274
• Wine labels, Sheffield plated, 53
• Wood engraving, decadence of, 41
• Worcester china, workmen's marks on, 289

• York, silversmiths at, 278

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