A rare old Sheffield plate Jarrin’s Patent water cooler / wine / cordial cistern, mounted with an ivory dolphin & handle to the lid. The whole in the form of woven top timber bucket, with acanthus leaf scrolled handles. Stamped with a hand to the base & the reverse inscribed Jarrin’s Patent. In the cookbook by William Alexis Jarrin called The Italian Confectioner, pub 1820, Jarrin describes himself on the title page as an “ornamental confectioner,” attributes recent advances in the confectioner’s art in England to two factors: “the aid of modern chemistry and the French Revolution, which led many leading chefs and confectioners to seek refuge and employment in England.” Born in Italy, he was to develop patent ice freezing machines, wine & cordial cisterns,of which this is a rare example. The impressed hand to the base registered in Sheffield by Nathaniel Smith from 1784. Height 37cm x 32cm
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