IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158339
accession number:	MAR.M.23.2 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 20 December 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Silver; stamped from sheet metal and filled with pitch or plaster of Paris; the base with a wood plug.  The spool-shaped sconce is fluted above a border of Greek key decoration.  The top of the column is decorated with four ram's masks holding swags; beneath each mask is a slender leg, which forms four corners to the  slender vase-shaped column, which is also fluted.  Each leg terminates in a hoof standing on the square base set with medallions.  The slightly domed square foot is decorated with borders of stiff leaf decoration.  Each of its sides is hung with swags of husks over - on three sides - a Classical vase, and on the forth side an oval plaque engraved with a crest.  The circular pull-off nozzle has a border of stiff leaf decoration. (with MAR.M.23.1 & A)
object type: silver; Neoclassical, decorated with ram's masks, swags, medallionsand other classical motifs
title:	candlestick

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Not known before testator


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
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158339


SUBJECTS
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ram
ram



TECHNIQUES
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the components of the candlestick were stamped from sheet metal, which was then seamed and filled with pitch or plaster of Paris.  The decoration was chased.
stamping (forming)
TECHNIQUES
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seaming
TECHNIQUES
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chasing

CATEGORIES
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category: silver

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1776
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1776
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Winter & Co, John

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 29.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 11⅝



CITATIONS
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Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks of England, Scotland & Ireland
English Goldsmiths and their Marks: a history of the goldsmiths and plate workers in England, Scotland and Ireland
Adam Silver, 1765-1795
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