IDENTIFIERS
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id:	25559
accession number:	C.539-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Lead glass. Straight-sided bowl wheel-engraved with figure of Admiral Byng in uniform hanging from gallows, and inscription on reverse 'ADMIRAL BYNG FIAT JUSTITIA. RUAT COELUM'. On shoulder knopped air twist stem. Conical foot.
title:	wine glass

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Cecil Davis, 23rd January 1950


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
creditline: D.H. Beves Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/25559

PEOPLE
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Admiral Byng

SUBJECTS
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hanging
gallows
hanging
gallows



CATEGORIES
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category: glass

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 7.7

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Bequests from Two Cambridge Collectors, The Reverend Alfred Valentine Valentine-Richards MA (1866-1933) and Donald H. Beves MA (1896-1961)
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