Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Glasshouse:
Gjøvik Glasverk
Entities
Categories
Description
Clear glass carafe, decorated with milled trails and raspberry prunts. Rectangular with canted corners, sloping shoulders and a tall slender cylindrical neck, with an applied wavy trail about a third of the way up and another below the rim. The long sides are decorated with one straight and two sloping milled trails with a raspberry prunt at the top of each reminiscent of a plant, and on the short sides with one milled trail and prunt. Three of the canted corners has a milled trail which joins one of the raspberry prunts on the long sides, and one has an extra prunt at the top.
Notes
History note: Sir Ivor and Lady Batchlor, St Andrew's Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January).
Purchased from Messrs. Howard Phillips, November 1974
Legal notes
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 9.7 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Dating
19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1830
Note
The Gjøvik glasshouse was founded in 1807.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
Materials used in production
clear
Glass
Techniques used in production
Blown-moulded
: Clear glass, blown-moulded and decorated with applied wavy trails, milled trails, and raspberry prunts
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.186-2015
Primary reference Number: 206923
Old object number: 3
Old loan number: AAL-188-2006
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 3 November 2015
Updated: Wednesday 1 February 2017
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
