Glassmaker: Unknown (Probably)
Clear glass, cut and wheel-engraved. Ogee bowl with facetted lower part; cut baluster stem with basal collar; flat circular foot. The bowl is decorated with a continuous Bacchanalian frieze with narrow formal borders of scrolls and foliage above and below. The underside of the foot is cut with small radiating ovals and the top is engraved with a border of stylised plants between tassel-like motifs. The cover is decorated with a circle of cut disks and a border of scrolls, foliage and flowers linking a basket of flowers, a putto and two beakers. '170' in white paint on flange of cover.
History note: Viktor Schick, Prague; Mrs Hedwig Schick; Sotheby's, 4th May, 1939, p. 12, lot 39, first part, Catalogue of the well-known collection of fine Continental glass formed by the late Viktor Schick, Esq., of Prague, The property of Mrs Hedwig Schick; 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.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1740
CE
-
1750
CE
Glass
composed of
clear glass
Rim
Diameter 7.5 cm
Foot
Diameter 9.1 cm
Goblet
Height 16.7 cm
Bowl
Decoration
Lower Part Of Bowl
Accession number: C.360 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 27849
Packing number: GLA 158
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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