IDENTIFIERS
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id:	118340
accession number:	M.468 & A-1985

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 11 November 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Silver; with embossed and chased decoration, and matted and plain surfaces. Helmet-shaped ewer on a short stem and oval foot, with projecting covered spout, the cover perforated at the end; cast harp-shaped handle; and covex cover with a raised circle in the centre and a cast 'turned' finial.  The body of is decorated below the rim with a frieze of putti amid scrolling foliage separated by a filet from a calyx of acanthus leaves growing upwards from the junction with the stem which has a gadrooned 'frill' half way up. The spout is wrapped in acanthus foliage, and there is a leaf extending downwards from the top of the handle. The foot has a border of scrolling foliage, and the cover has acanthus foliage radiating from the raised centre. (A) Oval basin with applied reeded edge, wide rim, and shallow oval well. It has a plain centre, and on the rim, four putti amid scrolling foliage with a matted ground.
object type: silver; embossed, chased and matted, and decorated with acanthus leaves and putti amid scrolling foliage
title:	ewer

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sir William Lockhart of Lee (1621-1675); by descent to an anonymous lender in 1977 from whom purchased


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Purchased with the Golland and Rylands Funds with a grant from the B.N. Stuart Bequest to the National Art Collections Fund and Grand-in-Aid from the Regional Fund of the Museums and Galleries Commission

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118340

PEOPLE
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Lockhart, Sir William, of Lee (1621-75)
putto

SUBJECTS
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acanthus
acanthus



TECHNIQUES
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silver, raised, embossed, chased, and matted, with cast handle and finial
raised (metal forming process)

CATEGORIES
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category: silver

DATING
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creation date:	1656 - 1660
creation date earliest:	1656
creation date latest:	1660
culture:	17th Century, third quarter#
culture:	Louis XIV (1638-1715)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Treasures from the Fitzwilliam
title:	Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain
CITATIONS
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Les orfèvres et l'orfèvrerie de Paris au XVIIe siècle
Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation''
National Art Collections Fund Review 1986
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975
Seven Centuries, the History of the Lockharts of Lee and Carnwath
Dictionary of National Biography
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