Glassmaker:
Unknown
Engraver:
Unknown
Clear glass, the stem containing red and gold threads, cut and wheel-engraved. Facetted funnel bowl; cut baluster stem containing a complex red and gold twist, and basal collar; circular foot. The bowl is decorated with an oval portrait medallion of a man wearing a wig in profile to right below a crown held by putti, surrounded by strap-work, scrolls, masks, birds and vases of flowers. The underside of the foot is cut with radiating oval and straight cuts and the underside is engraved at the front with a knot motif flanked by foliated scrolls.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 18.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1740
-
Circa
1750
Stem Threads
composed of
red glass
aventurine glass
Rim
Diameter 8.3 cm
Foot
Diameter 9.3 cm
Bowl
Decoration
Accession number: C.363-1991
Primary reference Number: 27475
Packing number: GLA 152
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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