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Glassmaker: Unknown
Lead glass with panel-moulded, double-ogee bowl, with eight vertical loops rising from the rim, and eight flower prunts at their junctions with the rim. The bowl rests on a triple collar supported on a complex white opaque twist stem (corkscrew enclosing a lace twist), and a domed, panel-moulded foot with folded rim. There is rounded pontil mark in the centre of the foot.
History note: Unknown before testator, Donald H. Beves (1896-1961)
D.H. Beves Bequest
Diameter: 8.9 cm
Height: 16.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-10-19) by Beves, Donald H.
18th Century, Mid
George II
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
Glasses of this type often formed the pinnacle at the top of a tiered arrangement of two or three glass salvers of diminishing size bearing jelly and syllabub glasses. They were sometimes referred to as 'top glasses' or 'orange glasses' because an orange or another fruit was placed in them.
Foot
Diameter 8.3 cm
Bowl, Foot
Prunts
Accession number: C.614-1961
Primary reference Number: 25909
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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