© Bowes Museum
Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture
Artist: Various, Duteille, rue de la Cossonerie, Prati
Location: Bowes Museum
Date: circa 1830
Materials: hardwood, metal & ivory tools, paper
Grant:
Amount Paid: £11,500 (Total: £32,500)
Vendor: Bredford Libri Rari
Review number: 5057 (2002)
Provenance:
Private collection, Italy.
Description:
47 moulds for a total of 730 different objects, with 62 tools and 26 drawings. The moulds would have been used to create sculpture for the dinner table, often of sugarpaste, which was popular from medieval times onwards. Some moulds are carved with classical symbols such as helmets; others with gothic and historicising details.
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