IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 27031 accession number: C.6 & A-1988 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clear lead glass, mould-blown with ribs and decorated with applied threading and prunts. Globular body with ground circular depression in the base; slender neck with a collar 3.4 cm below the rim; loop handle with folded base resting on a pad; solid moulded stopper of pinnacle form. The lower part is ribbed. Above there are five semi-circles each containing a large prunt of star design. Smaller raspberry prunts are situated in the spandrels. The junction of the neck and body is encircled by a thread. title: decanter NOTES ----- type: history note value: See letter from donor in the object file LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mr G.V.A. Seccombe-Hett STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/27031 CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 185 - 1860 creation date earliest: 185 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Richardson's DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Mission Impossible? Ethics and Choices in Conservation CITATIONS -------- Journal of Glass Studies The Decanter, An Illustrated History of Glass from 1650 Glass; its makers and its public Mission Impossible? Ethics and Choices in Conservation, Brief Guide ---