IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 25569 accession number: C.558-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lead glass. Bucket bowl engraved and gilt (?) with a frigate in full sail and inscribed 'Success to the EAGLE FRIGATE', on mercurial air twist stem. title: privateer glass NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased Sotheby's, 18th May 1951, lot 51, £60.00 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: D.H. Beves Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/25569 SUBJECTS ------------------- frigate sailing frigate sailing CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1757 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1757 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum Glass, The Smithsonian Illustrated Library and Antiques List of Privateers taken from the Daily Advertiser and the London Chronicle Bequests from Two Cambridge Collectors, The Reverend Alfred Valentine Valentine-Richards MA (1866-1933) and Donald H. Beves MA (1896-1961) A Coronation Exhibition of Royal Historical, Political and Social Glass L'Association Internationale pour L'Histoire du Verre, Glass Exhibition, 1979 ---