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English glass two-handled cup

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An image of Two-handled cup. Unidentified English glasshouse. The cup stands on a circular foot with a rough pontil mark underneath. The body is thistle-shaped with two applied loop handles.  The foot has indented rings. The lower part of the body is moulded with ribs, pincered into a repeating diamond pattern (nipt diamond-waies). The waist has three horizontally trailed threads pincered twice on each side and once under each handle to form a chain. The handles have a vertical ridge and a pincered kick at the bottom. Colourless lead-glass blown, pattern-moulded, pincered, and trailed. height, whole, 14.8 cm, width, whole, 20 cm, 1690-1710. Baroque. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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Two-handled cup. Unidentified English glasshouse. The cup stands on a circular foot with a rough pontil mark underneath. The body is thistle-shaped with two applied loop handles. The foot has indented rings. The lower part of the body is moulded with ribs, pincered into a repeating diamond pattern (nipt diamond-waies). The waist has three horizontally trailed threads pincered twice on each side and once under each handle to form a chain. The handles have a vertical ridge and a pincered kick at the bottom. Colourless lead-glass blown, pattern-moulded, pincered, and trailed. height, whole, 14.8 cm, width, whole, 20 cm, 1690-1710. Baroque. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund.

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  • Accession Number: C.148-2015
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: GFX 50S
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 939 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 91.85kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2018:07:10 22:39:08

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17th Century 18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor Baroque clear glass cup English Fitz_AA flowers glass glassware handled handles lead glass moulded pincered stem stemmed thistle thistle shaped two handled two-handled

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