IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 99083 accession number: M.16-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 10 November 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark green blown glass body, mounted in silver with applied and engraved ornament, set with malachite panels, semi-precious stone, cloisonné enamels, two 17th century coral cameos each of a nymph's head, one of Cupid holding a basket, and another of Cupid holding a garland, a Roman first century AD nicolo intaglio of a sleeping hound, a Sassanian 5th or 6th century cornelian intaglio of a personal device and six silver-mounted ancient coins; on the neck, a Thracian silver drachm, struck at Byzantion (c. 340-320 BC) and a Roman silver siliqua of Julian II (361-363), possibly struck at the mint in Arles, France; on the body, a Byzantine gold lightweight solidus of Justinian (527-565)m a Byzantine electrum histamenon nomisma of Nicephorus III (1078-81), a Roman silver argentus of Constntine I (307-337) issued during his time as Caesar, dating from 305-307 and struck at the mint in Trier, Germany, and a Byzantine gold histamenon nomisma of Basil II (976-1025). The hinged cover with a Chinese rock crystal Buddhist lion surrounded by leafy foliage (two pieces missing) and a silver palisade, surmounted by a hoop with silver bell, the underside of the cover with an agate, surrounded by silver foliage. The cast silver handle is in the form of a winged lion with a carved elephant-ivory head, and the spout is cast in the form of an antelope's head with emerald eye, with a silver stopper attached by a chain. The foot is engraved with a hedgehog, a frog, a mouse, and a wren with a worm in its beak, and the 'signature' 'I WREN' for Jenny Wren. The partly obscured inscription on the neck reads: WILLIELMUS BURGES ME FIERI FECIT ANNO DI MDCCCLXV EX HONS ECCL[ESI]AE CONSTANTINOPOLITANAE object type: Green glass, mounted in silver set with malachite, semi-precious stone, cloisonné enamels, coral cameos, intaglios, classical coins, ivory and rock crystal title: decanter NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Burges (1827-1881). Charles Handley-Read (1916-1972)and Lavinia Handley-Read (d. 1972); purchased from Thomas Stainton, Executor of the Handley-Read Estate LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Perceval Fund and with the Regional Fund administered by the Victoria & Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/99083 PEOPLE ------------------- Burges, William CATEGORIES ------ category: glass category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1865 - 1866 creation date earliest: 1865 creation date latest: 1866 culture: 19th Century, third quarter# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Burges, William maker: Mendelson, Josiah maker: Angell, George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.3 dimension: Height units: in value: 10¾ dimension: Width units: cm value: 19 dimension: Width units: in value: 7½ EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art - The Handley-Read Collection title: Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain 1850-1930 title: Morris & Company in Cambridge title: The Strange Genius of William Burges title: Foundations for the Future title: Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940: Jewellery and Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection The Annual Reports of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate and the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Cambridge for the Year ending 31 December 1972 Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain 1850-1930 Morris & Company in Cambridge The Strange Genius of William Burges - 'Art Architect', 1827-1881 William Burges and the High Victorian Dream Treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Cambridges alla skrytobject The Lady, 3-9 January 1995 Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum The Decanter, An Illustrated History of Glass from 1650 Designers & Jewellery 1850-1940. Jewellery and Metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths Jewellers and Allied Traders 1838-1914, from the London Assay Office Registers Victorian Silver and Silver Plate Building News The Builder The Architectural Designs of William Burges The House of William Burges Applied Arts from 1880 Silver Studies. 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