Maker: Unidentified English glasshouse
Lead-glass tankard with engraved foliage, and inscriptions ‘HB’ and ‘Fawthorp’
Colourless lead-glass, blown, and engraved. Cylindrical with an almost vertical 'skirt', an applied band round the middle, and a strap handle with a tooled terminal and small kick at the lower end. Engraved above the band are the script initials 'HB enclosed by curving sprays of foliage extending to left and right towards the handle. Below the band is the name 'Fanthorp' with on each side of it a large scrolling stylized leaf.
History note: Howard Phillips, London, from whom purchased, February, 1978; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Height: 15.7 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2015-04-27) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
: possibly later
Foot
Diameter 10 cm
Decoration
Accession number: C.138-2015
Primary reference Number: 206832
Old object number: 9
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.138-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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