2-913-744 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Liebig Testimonial, 1854. '...five pieces of Plate, manufactured by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell...a fine specimen of British artistic design...attracting the highest admiration at the Industrial Exhibition at Munich...It has been purchased for presentation to Baron Liebig, the eminent chemist...Baron Liebeg having expressed a wish that the gift should consist of the above number of pieces, in order that each of his five children may inherit a portion of the plate - consisting of the Warwick Vase, two Candelabra, two Claret or Beer-jugs'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.