EXQUISITE ANTIQUE AMERICAN SUGAR CUBE JAR CIRCA 1870'S

HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE INVENTIVENESS OF JAKUB KRYSTOF RAD, THE SWISS BORN DIRECTOR OF A SUGAR BEET FACTORY AT DACICE IN BOHEMIA, THIS BEAUTIFUL COLLECTOR'S PIECE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED.

FOR IT WAS JAKUB RAD WHO INVENTED THE SUGAR CUBE AFTER HIS WIFE CUT HER FINGERS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SLICE UP A BLOCK OF SUGAR FOR HER KITCHEN CONTAINERS - THUS GIVING THE WORLD A NEW DELIGHT AND INSPIRING THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF ALL MANNER OF ELABORATE SUGAR CUBE JARS FOR THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

THIS ORNATE PIECE WITH CRYSTAL JAR WAS CREATED BY THE WILCOX SILVERPLATE CO. OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT FOUNDED IN 1865 BY JEDEDIAH & HORACE WILCOX WHO WERE IN THE FOREFRONT OF AMERICAN SILVERSMITHS UNTIL THE FIRM WAS ABSORBED INTO THE INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO. OF MERIDEN IN 1898.

MEASURING 28CM TALL BY 10.5CM IN DIAMETER AT THE BASE - WHICH IS SLIGHTLY BENT -, THE LID BEARS THE ENGRAVED INITIALS "CK" WHICH SUGGESTS THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY AN EXPENSIVE GIFT FOR SOMEONE SPECIAL.

WE TRUST THAT OUR PHOTOGRAPHS CAPTURE FULLY ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL ABOUT THIS ENCHANTING ANTIQUE WHICH DESPITE THE WEAR AS SHOWN WILL BE A TREASURED FIND FOR AN APPRECIATIVE COLLECTOR.