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Nautilus shell cup with aquatic emblems

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An image of Nautilus shell cup engraved with Chinese scenes and mounted with silver-gilt aquatic emblems. Nautilus shell with engraved decoration, mounted in silver-gilt, cast, embossed, chased and engraved, height (overall) 24.4 cm, width (overall) 10.8 cm, length (overall) 19 cm, c.1585-1586. London silversmith. Mannerist.

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Nautilus shell cup engraved with Chinese scenes and mounted with silver-gilt aquatic emblems. Nautilus shell with engraved decoration, mounted in silver-gilt, cast, embossed, chased and engraved, height (overall) 24.4 cm, width (overall) 10.8 cm, length (overall) 19 cm, c.1585-1586. London silversmith. Mannerist.

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  • Accession Number: M/P.4-1938
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/45.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 692 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 139.84kB
  • Exposure time: 1/180
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 45/1
  • Captured: 2013:12:19 15:37:31

Key words

16th Century British School Chinese Style Department Elizabethan English Fitz_AA Mannerism Mannerist Material Neptune Silver Tudor Period Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd _WF_Replaced_OK aquatic caryatids chased crustacea crustacean cup dolphin embossed engraved fish lobster marine mythological mythology nautilus sea shell shell shellfish shells silver-gilt standing cup

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rgb(217,217,216), rgb(133,119,84), rgb(78,68,46), rgb(183,170,132), rgb(150,140,115), rgb(176,173,167), rgb(208,199,166), rgb(156,156,156), rgb(98,90,92), rgb(198,164,95), rgb(108,110,108)

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