IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 26334 accession number: C.564-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 16 March 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Faintly crizzled lead-glass, blown. Circular with moulded gadrooned base, straight sides, two scrolled handles, and at right angles to them, a curved spout with raven's head seal at base. title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sold Sotheby's, 8 December 1952, lot 93 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: D.H. Beves creditline: D.H. Beves Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/26334 SUBJECTS ------------------- raven raven CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1677 - 1678 creation date earliest: 1677 creation date latest: 1678 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Ravenscroft, George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 7.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Age of Charles II title: Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition 1937-1962 title: Exhibition of English Glass title: Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Cambridge Connoisseur The Age of Charles II Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1961 Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition, 1937-1962 Some Important Early English Glasses Part I George Ravenscroft and his Contribution to English Glass Making George Ravenscroft, New Light on the Development of his 'Christalline Glasses' Exhibition of English Glass English Glasses Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century English Glass Glass, The Smithsonian Illustrated Library and Antiques English Glass and the Glass used in England, c. 400-1940 Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Glass Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Fine British & European Ceramics & Glass Fine British and European Ceramics & Glass Glass of the Alchemists, Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 The Development of lead-crystal glass in London and Dublin 1672-1682: a reappraisal Bequests from Two Cambridge Collectors, The Reverend Alfred Valentine Valentine-Richards MA (1866-1933) and Donald H. Beves MA (1896-1961) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_564_1961.jpg height: 612 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_564_1961.jpg height: 403 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_564_1961.jpg height: 612 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_564_1961.jpg height: 201 pixels width: 250 pixels