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Flask: C.10-1999

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Glassmaker: Unidentified English glasshouse

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Description

Clear glass, blown, and decorated with milled trails, raspberry prunts, and trailed initials. Of flattened ovoid form with narrow base, and cylindrical neck with a projecting ring round the mouth. Decorated down each side with two milled trails, terminating on the shoulders where there is a prunt at the end of each. On one curved side there is a trailed reversed letter C with prunts at the ends, and on the other, a B with three prunts on the long stroke, each letter with larger prunts above, below, and to the right and left.

Notes

History note: Howard Phillips, London, in April 1982 by Sir Ivor Batchelor; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor

Legal notes

Given by Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor

Measurements and weight

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 9.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1999-01-18) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady

Dating

18th Century, Early#
Circa 1700 CE - 1730 CE

Components of the work

Body

Materials used in production

Lead-glass

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: reversed C and a B

  • Text: C/B
  • Type: Letter

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.10-1999
Primary reference Number: 27079
Old object number: 25
Entry form number: 101
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 12 June 2018 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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