Archive Record 006: The Leuchars Crow Claret Jug, 1881
Registered in December 1881, the Leuchars crow claret jug combined a clear-glass body with modelled silver and parcel-gilt mounts to create a functional Victorian object in avian form.
Registered in December 1881, the Leuchars crow claret jug combined a clear-glass body with modelled silver and parcel-gilt mounts to create a functional Victorian object in avian form.
The Science Museum Group preserves a decorated medicine chest associated with Leuchars of London, dated circa 1830 and fitted with twelve glass bottles from Dinneford of New Bond Street.
Lucy Leuchars is documented as a writing-desk and dressing-case maker at 38 Piccadilly. Archive Record 004 examines the directories, object label and royal association that preserve her place in the…