- Museum number
- S428B
- Object
- Ewer, Sheffield, Old Sheffield Plate, about 1790
- Description
- Hot-water jug. Old Sheffield plate, shaped fruitwood handle, on a circular pedestal base, the urn shaped body surmounted by a wasted nack, domed cover with ball finial, engraved with a crest.
- Materials
- Sheffield Plate
- Inscription
- Unmarked, Sheffield c. 1790
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Jug
- Dimensions
- regular: 32.0cm (w)
Ewer
Sheffield
Old Sheffield Plate, about 1790
S428B
Given by Rev. Hugh Nelson-Ward, 1947
The concept of ‘good taste’ first appeared in the eighteenth century. The rise of the middle classes meant that relatively ordinary people were able to purchase fashionable luxury goods for the first time.
Early in the century the heavy baroque style remained fashionable. During the 1730s the new lighter rococo style appeared with its asymmetries and motifs based on nature.
Neoclassicism, derived from Greece and Rome and inspired by archaeological discoveries, emerged in the 1750s partly as a reaction to the excesses of the rococo. It was to dominate art and design until the 1830s.
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