IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 162943 accession number: MAR.M.95-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver, parcel-gilt. The shallow oval bowl is attached by a rat's tail to the hinged handle, which teminates in a cast finial in the form of a female term, her legs forming her scrolling foliage plinth. The centre of the front of the bowl is engraved with a border of foliage and four fleurs de lis with pendants to four central roundals. The back of the bowl is similarly decorated, but in the centre are two animals' heads with flowers growing from their mouths; beneath them are the initials 'NG' conjoined. Beneath the slide, which is decorated with a human mask, the handle is inscribed 'IE VOVS FAIN SANS HONORES'. object type: silver, parcel-gilt; the shallow oval bowl is engraved with foliage; the hinged handle has an ornate finial of a female term title: spoon NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162943 PEOPLE ------------------- female term CATEGORIES ------ category: silver category: spoons DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 18 dimension: Length units: in value: 7⅛ dimension: Weight units: g value: 37 dimension: Weight units: oz:dwt value: 1:3