Decorative Pieces

Editorial reconstruction of a rectangular glass box with silver-gilt mounts, three-quarter view.

Archive Record 011: A Leuchars-Stamped Orléans Wedding-Gift Box, 1899

A silver-gilt-mounted glass box stamped Leuchars & Son Geffroy Sr Paris was catalogued as Prince Henri d’Orléans’s 1899 wedding gift to Jean and Isabelle d’Orléans.

Clear glass crow-form vessel with chased silver head, two feet and tail against a black background.

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.