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Thick lead glass, with shallow cutting and pierced silver cap. The pear-shaped caster is supported on a depressed beaded knop on a circular foot. The lower part of the caster is decorated with two and a half rows of shallow diamonds above which are eight tapering vertical depressions, each with four horizontal facets. The knop has eight beads, and the heavy foot has eight facets round its edge. The unmarked domed silver cover is pierced by numerous small circular holes forming a curved T-shape and three semi-circular areas each pierced by four holes.
History note: Ivan Napier Collection
Given by Miss E.H. Bolitho through the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1975) by Bolitho, E.H., Miss
18th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Label text from the exhibition ‘Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: Sugar caster with cap. England, c.1750. Caster: lead glass Cap: silver
Cap
composed of
silver
Decoration
Parts
Inscription present: small circular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.153-1975
Primary reference Number: 27168
Old object number: B.106
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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