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Jackfield Ware Japanese lacquer cermics
imitation originally produced at Jackfield
in Shorpshire from C.1750. Can also be known
as japanned ware, its covered in a glossy black
glaze with gilded decoration. Astbury, Whieldon
and Wedgewood also produced it.
Jacobean Period Reign of James I in England.
Jacob George (1739-1814)
French master Menuisier, by the early 1780's he was one
of the leading chair makers in Paris. His work spanned
the Louis XVI and Empire periods. His early Rococo
work soon gave way to a Neoclassical Louis XVI style.
He worked for Fontaine and Percier before forming Jacob
Desmalter & Cie in 1803 with his second son Francois.
Jacobite Glass Decanters, tumblers and wine glasses that
were used for loyal toasts to James II and his descendants,
Roman Catholic Pretenders to the British throne. First
produced in 1688 and engraved with mottoes, portraits and
symbols of the Jacobite cause, and include an oak leaf,
a caterpillar, a carnation and a thistle and a six or seven or
eight petal rose representing the British crown.
In 1770 the cause was lost, production of glassware ceased
and ever since Jacobite glassware has been widely faked
in particular in the late 19th Century.
Jacquet-Droz Firm of watch and automata makers.
Pierre Jacquet Droz and his son Henri-Louis set up
partnership in Geneva in 1787. They exquisitely decorated
enamelled and automata watches in the first half of the
19th Century.
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