Woodworker: Unknown
Fruit wood; fig-shaped bowl with slender handle richly carved in the auricular style with grotesques
Fruit wood; the fig-shaped bowl is carved in the front at the join with the handle with a shell; the back is carved with an ornate auricular heel. The slender handle is carved with a row of beads, and broadens towards the terminal where it is richly carved with a series of grostesques and a bust. A hole is drilled through the handle on the sides just below the terminal.
History note: Not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay, London
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Length: 17 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
17th Century, Mid-Late
Circa
1640
CE
-
Circa
1700
CE
Carving : The wood was carved
Accession number: MAR.M.162-1912
Primary reference Number: 166852
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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