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Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture
Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture
Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture
© The Bowes Museum
© The Bowes Museum
© The Bowes Museum

Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture

Various

Art Funded
2002
Vendor
Bredford Libri Rari
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.

Provenance

Private collection, Italy.

Hardwood, metal & ivory tools, paper

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Three evening dresses
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The Enid Goldblatt collection of porcelain
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Table Clock
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Table
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Suite of Early George II Furniture
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 Acquired 1979
Serving dish
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Satyr with Two Fauns
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Saint Luke
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Plaque: Portrait of a Woman
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Pair of Vincennes bulb pots
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Pair of pedestals
 Acquired 1977
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Pair of candelabra
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Pair of Adélaïde vases
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Mr John Bowes's 'Daniel O'Rourke' with Frank Butler up
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Mirror
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Louis XV silver ewer & dish
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Louis XV Bureau
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La Mal'aria
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James I spice box
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Curio Cabinet
 Acquired 1961
Cupola of San Antonio de la Florida, Madrid
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Collection of porcelain and earthenware
 Acquired 1963
Collection of Etchings
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Collection of Dresden and Meissen porcelain
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Collection of 10 items of furniture
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Charles I Silver Wine Cup
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Chandelier
 Acquired 1959
Break-front bookcase
 Acquired 1978
Bracket clock
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Bowes Tower, Yorkshire
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Barnard Castle and Bridge
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Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture
 Acquired 2002
Adam
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Account of the Montenegro Family, Seville
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A View of Barnard Castle, Yorkshire, from the River
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A Necessaire de Voyage
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A Musical Table Clock
 Acquired 1980
A Moorland Road
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18th Century enamel pieces
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The Bowes' collection includes three evening dresses by Madeleine Vionnet, 20th-century couturier and 'architect among dressmakers'. Funded in 2009, these gowns offer a window onto the style of their age, and speak of an inter-war world clinging to the comforts of the past.

Considered the finest work of French cabinet-maker Andre-Charles Boulle, a maquetry panel now forms the front of the 'Warwick Cabinet', incorporated in the late 18th century by an English firm. Known to have stood in Warwick Castle, the cabinet was rescued from export to America.

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