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Description: | Artist: Unknown, glassmaker; Date(s): circa 1740 - circa 1750; Classification(s): glass, goblet, blown, blown glass, cut and wheel-engraved; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 [C.363-1991]
Description: Clear glass, the stem containing red and gold threads, cut and wheel-engraved. Facetted funnel bowl; cut baluster stem containing a complex red and gold twist, and basal collar; circular foot. The bowl is decorated with an oval portrait medallion of a man wearing a wig in profile to right below a crown held by putti, surrounded by strap-work, scrolls, masks, birds and vases of flowers. The underside of the foot is cut with radiating oval and straight cuts and the underside is engraved at the front with a knot motif flanked by foliated scrolls. | 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 glass goblet | Temporal: | name=mid 18th Century; start=1740; end=1750 | 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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