A Silver-Plated Table After Elkington

This Elkington design, known as  The Seasons, includes a second dish representing July through December. They were designed by Léonard Morel-Ladeuil for the 1878 Exposition Universelle, Paris. They were reproduced as electrotypes by Elkington and sold through the Department of Science and Art. A pair was purchased in 1883 by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London for their collects ion. Another pair was gifted by H.R.H. Prince Leopold to Bonamy Price, his political economy professor at Oxford. The set is also illustrated in Alistair Grant and Angus Patterson,  The Museum and the Factory, pp. 84-87.