IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 28827 accession number: M.2 & A-1999 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 September 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver, raised, embossed and chased, with cast foot and raised, hollow finial. The cup stands on a shaped octagonal footring. The rounded sides contract into a short neck and expand into a shaped rim with four rounded lobes separated by four narrow, spout-like lobes. On opposing sides there are ear-shaped handles, each made of two broad serpents, whose heads pass through a monster's head and project to right and left at the top, and whose tails entwine at the lower end. The cover has a shaped edge to match the top of the porringer, and rises up in the centre where there is a crouching possibly defecating, partly clad man, looking to his left. The body is decorated overall with auricular ornament forming grotesque masks: a fish-mask on the front and back, a male mask under each handle and between them, four masks of indeterminate creatures. The cover is decorated with auricular scrolls and masks round its edge, and with four open-mouthed masks below the man. There are traces on the cup and cover of erased arms. object type: Silver, raised, embossed, and chased, in auricular style, with cast foot and raised finial in the form of a crouching partly clad man looking to his left title: two-handled cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly acquired by George Hibbert, Esq. (1757-1837), of Munden, Hertfordshire, the celebrated collector, and thence by descent: Christie's, London, 4th November 1998, Fine Silver and Objects of Vertu, catalogue pp. 72-5, lot 123. Sold for £71,900 including premium. Export license withheld. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the H.S.Reitlinger Fund and grants from the National Art Collections Fund, and the MGC\V&A Purchase Grant Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28827 PEOPLE ------------------- man SUBJECTS ------------------- serpent monster serpent monster TECHNIQUES ---------- silver, raised, embossed and chased, with cast foot and raised, hollow finial in the form of a crouching man raising (metal forming process) TECHNIQUES ---------- embossing TECHNIQUES ---------- chasing CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1660 - 1667 creation date earliest: 1660 creation date latest: 1667 culture: 17th Century, third quarter# culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Vianen, Christiaen van DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.6 dimension: Height units: in value: 7⅜ dimension: Weight units: g value: 831 dimension: Weight units: oz : dwt value: 26 : 14 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain CITATIONS -------- Export of Works of Art 1998-99, Forty-fifth Report of the Reviewing Committee appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 1952 Fitzwilliam Museum News The National Art Collections Fund 1999 Review The Fitzwilliam Museum Biennial Review 1998-2000 Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Caroline Silver 1625-88 English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, volume I - silver before 1697 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_2_1999.jpg height: 657 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_2_1999.jpg height: 432 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_2_1999.jpg height: 657 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_2_1999.jpg height: 216 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/933/large_M_2___A_1999_mas.jpg height: 922 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/933/mid_M_2___A_1999_mas.jpg height: 450 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.2 & A-1999_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/933/preview_M_2___A_1999_mas.jpg height: 225 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/933/M_2___A_1999_mas.ptif height: 4050 pixels width: 4500 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/274/large_M_2___A_1999_dc1.jpg height: 922 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/274/mid_M_2___A_1999_dc1.jpg height: 450 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/274/M_2___A_1999_dc1.jpg height: 4050 pixels width: 4500 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/274/preview_M_2___A_1999_dc1.jpg height: 225 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/274/M_2___A_1999_dc1.ptif height: 4050 pixels width: 4500 pixels