Glassmaker: Unknown
Lead glass. Bucket bowl, wheel-engraved with a frigate and inscribed 'Success to the DEFIANCE Privateer', on opaque twist stem. Plain foot.
History note: Purchased Sotheby's, 24th July, 1951, lot 125, £34, ex-collection Milstead
D.H. Beves Bequest
Diameter: 6.8 cm
Height: 15.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-10-19) by Beves, Donald H.
18th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
The Defiance sailed from Bristol 15.7.1758, Capt. Dickens and 17.10.1758, Capt. Baind
Bowl
Decoration
Accession number: C.556-1961
Primary reference Number: 25880
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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