COW CREAMERS
Jun 24, 2020
3 minutes
In his 1957 book, Small Antique Silverware, George Bernard Hughes reveals that a ‘quaint conceit of the third quarter of the 18th century was the milk jug modelled in the form of a cow’. With the tail of the cow as the handle, milk was poured out of these hollow cows through the mouth. Inspired by pottery figurines, London-based Dutch silversmith, John Schuppe, began to make expensive silver creamers for the British gentry, which became fashionable.
‘In that period – the late 18th century and early 19th century
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