IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140605 accession number: M.5-1816 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 February 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver and ebony; the central oval mount is embossed with the arms of Fitzwilliam impaling Decker on a matted ground. It is held in an oval ebony frame on a rectangular ebonised board. In each corner of the board is a shaped triangular plaque depicting the four seasons. Each plaque is finely embossed, chased and engraved. Spring has a basket of flowers; summer has the sun shining on a tree and two buildings with sheaves of wheat in the foreground; autumn has grapes, melons and fruit, and winter has a bare tree with game (rabbits and birds) hanging in the foreground. The wood frame with gilded borders is later. object type: silver and ebony; one oval mount embossed with the arms of Fitzwilliam impaling Decker, surrounded by four triangular mounts, each embossed with emblems of a season, attached to a later rectangular embonised wood frame title: mounts (attachments) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Founder's Collection creditline: Founder's Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140605 PEOPLE ------------------- Fitzwilliam, Richard, 6th Viscount SUBJECTS ------------------- rabbit bird flower wheatsheaf tree melon grape fruit rabbit bird flower wheatsheaf tree melon grape fruit CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1744 - 1776 creation date earliest: 1744 creation date latest: 1776 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Dutch Connection CITATIONS -------- The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_5_1816.jpg height: 742 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_5_1816.jpg height: 488 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_5_1816.jpg height: 742 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_5_1816.jpg height: 244 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/508/162/large_M_5_1816_200708_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1000 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/508/162/mid_M_5_1816_200708_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 488 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.5-1816_200708_mfj22_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/508/162/preview_M_5_1816_200708_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 244 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/508/162/M_5_1816_200708_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 2779 pixels width: 2847 pixels