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Cork City's coat of arms, commonly engraved as a hallmark into Williams' pieces

Legacy

Following the death of her husband John Williams in 1806 Jane continued work as a silversmith, entering a partnership in business with her father Carden Terry from their firm's premises at 44 Grand Parade, Cork. During the time she worked with her father, she became an accomplished silversmith crafting highly regarded pieces of silver, many of which were deemed to be unique and refreshing and have become much sought after and collected even two centuries later. Her acclaimed work can be identified by the makers' hallmark trademarked by Jane and her father Carden Terry from the year 1807. This joint makers' mark engraves Irish harps and the Cork city coat of arms into some of her work, notably on the Regency Irish Freedom Box created in 1814. Other hallmarks engraved in her pieces can be used to identify her work, particularly her pieces that bare the mark 'Sterling', a word that only appears on 18th century silver crafted in either Cork or Limerick, accompanied by her and her father's initials 'C.T.' and 'J.W.'. Shortly after her father Carden's death in July 1821, Jane closed their silver workshop and from their firms property in Grand parade she pursued a trade as a haberdasher and linen draper, operating as 'Jane Williams & Son'. From her acclaimed work as a silversmith, Jane Williams has become widely renowned as one of the most prolific female silversmiths in Ireland during the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, notably regarded as the only known female silversmith in Cork during that period.