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Description: | Artist: Unknown, glassmaker; Date(s): circa 1720 - 1725; Classification(s): glass, wine glass, blowing, bowl blown, engraved and gilded; Acquisition: bequeathed by Valentine-Richards, Alfred Valentine, The Rev., 1933, The Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards Bequest [C/G.46-1933]
Description: Lead glass. Trumpet-shaped bowl and stem down to the single knop, below whiich the stem is thicker down to a knop on a conical, slightly domed foot. Engraved with a medallion containing a fruiting vine with the inscription 'Qui capit ille facit' round it; flanked by Bacchus, Venus and Cupid. An inscription below reads 'Sine cerere friget Venus et Baccho'. Slight gilding. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown wine glass glass | Temporal: | name=early 18th Century; start=1720; end=1725 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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