Body material
In silverware production , in the silverware trade and sale as well as in the insurance industry, bodyware is used to describe all vessels, plates, candelabra , centerpieces , but also honorary gifts, church silver , key rings, boxes and sports prizes, etc.
The term refers to the area of bulky silver goods in order to distinguish them from cutlery, jewelry and other small items made of silver. It only became widespread with industrial production in the 19th century and is therefore less used for older, purely handcrafted silver devices, which were seldom the subject of trade and therefore usually not a commodity in the narrower sense.
In Anglo-Saxon usage, a distinction is made between hollow ware (body) and flatware (cutlery).
literature
- Istvan Dombi, Bernd Höfler, Ingrid Loschek: Bruckmann's Silver Lexicon. Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1755-6 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Horst Dietz: Household contents insurance 84. Conditions, clauses, premium guidelines, insurance technology. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, Karlsruhe 1988, ISBN 3-88487-154-4 , p. 305 .
- ↑ oldest evidence of "Corpus piece": the role of the Bremen Goldsmith's office, 1817th