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.
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.
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.