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cruet frame containing five bottles with three bottle labels
Silversmith:
Langford, John II
Silversmith:
Sebille, John
Silver; cinquefoil-shaped stand with five glass bottles with silver covers and three silver bottle tickets.
Silver; the cinquefoil base with gadrooned rim above vertical sides pierced with a geometric pattern of intersecting scrolls and leaves. The flat base stands on five cast openwork scroll feet. The five sided central devider is pierced with a geometric pattern, screwed to it is a tall cast handle with scalework sides surmounded by a central loop handle of asymetric scrolls. The front of the stand with applied rococo cartouche containing a crest of a boar's head. Five glass bottles with silver (unmarked) covers. Three of the bottles are baluster-shaped on a circular spreading foot; the largest with pierced cover (probably for sugar); the smaller pair with one pierced and one unpierced cover (probably for pepper and mustard). The other pair of bottles have straight sides and pull-off covers (probably for sauces). All are cut with a geometric pattern of hexagons. The three silver rococo revival bottle tickets are of aysemetric shape, with a border of scrolls, and are engraved ' SUGAR', 'CHILI' AND 'WORCESTER'. (see individual entries: M.4.1-1948, M.4.2 & A-1948, M.4.3 & A-1948, M.4.4 & A-1948, M.4.5 & A-1948, M.4.6 & A-1948, M.4.7-1948, M.4.8-1948 and M.4.9-1948)
History note: Not known before donor
Given by C.D. Rotch Esq.
Method of acquisition: Given (1948-04-16) by Rotch, Claude Dickason
18th Century, third quarter
George III
1765
-
1766
(The labels are marked for London 1836, maker's mark of 'IW')
Frame
composed of
silver
To Top Of Handle
Height 26.8 cm
Height 10½ in
Frame Only
Weight 980 g
Weight 31 : 10 oz : dwt
Across Base
Width 18.5 cm
Width 7¼ in
Label
Width 3.7 cm
Width 1⅜ in
Decoration
Feet
Glass
Handle
Inscription
Labels
Inscription present: leopard's head crowned
Inscription present: lion passant
Inscription present: 'I' over 'JL' over 'S', in a cross-shaped cartouche
Inscription present: monarch's head
Inscription present: lion passant
Accession number: M.4-1948
Primary reference Number: 158302
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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