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Description: | Artist: Unknown, glassmaker; Date(s): circa 1730; Classification(s): glass, goblet, blown, clear glass, wheel-engraved, cut glass, facetted stem and bowl; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.367-1991]
Description: Clear glass. Thistle-shaped bowl with solid, facetted lower part; stem with facetted baluster over a knop cut with ovals; plain foot, domed in the centre where there is a rough pontil mark. Bowl wheel-engraved with two oval shields of arms, France and supported by angels with the Order of the Golden Fleece below and a helmet above. Above there is a canopy under a crown held up by two putti and flanked by flags bearing the same two arms. At the top thee is a ribbon inscribed 'MONT JOYE SAINT DENIS'. | 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=18th century; start=1730; end=1730 | 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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