IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 27858 accession number: C.369-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Mercantile goblet/linen industry goblet. Clear glass, cut, wheel-engraved and gilt. Ogee bowl, the lower part cut in relief with four shell or anthemions; facetted knop over a facetted stem; circular, slightly domed foot. The glass is broken off the stem below the knop. The bowl is decorated with Mercury and Neptune beneath a lady and gentleman seated in a loggia; men with a large package beside a warehouse, with above the interior with spinning and weaving in progress; and Italianate buildings beside a quay with a cart approaching from the left, and a merchant ship moored alongside. The foot is cut on the underside with alternating oval and straight cuts. title: goblet NOTES ----- type: history note value: Viktor Schick, Prague; Mrs Hedwig Schick; Sotheby's, 4th May, 1939, 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, p. 16, lot 54, a linen industry goblet, then with cover; Henry Scipio Reitlinger; The Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/27858 PEOPLE ------------------- Schick, Viktor Neptune Mercury lady gentleman men SUBJECTS ------------------- cart ship package spinning weaving loggia warehouse buildings cart ship package spinning weaving loggia warehouse buildings CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.7