IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118296 accession number: M/P.9-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 1 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver-gilt, embossed, chased, and engraved. Circular with a narrow rim, curved well and domed boss. Decorated overall with with mythological and natural aquatic figures and animals, and strapwork against a wavy background. The boss is inset with a later circular plaque engraved with the arms of Fuller. title: basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Samuel Montague, first Baron Swaythling; sold Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6-7 May 1924, Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Silversmith's Work formed by the Right Hon. Montagu, First Lord Swaythling being a part of The Swaythling Heirlooms, on the second day of sale, p. 38, part of lot 113. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118296 PEOPLE ------------------- Montagu, Samuel, first Lord Swaythling Triton SUBJECTS ------------------- frog frog TECHNIQUES ---------- silver, raised, embossed, chased, engraved, and gilded raising (metal forming process) CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1559 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1559 creation date latest: 1560 culture: Renaissance culture: 16th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified maker: Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, the elder DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 45.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) title: Treasures of Cambridge title: Cambridge Plate title: L'Ecole de Fontainbleau title: L'Orfèvrerie Parisienne de la Renaissance, Trésors dispersés CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Silversmith's Work formed by the Right Hon. Montagu, First Lord Swaythling being a part of the Swaythling Heirlooms Treasures of Cambridge. Catalogue of the Exhibits. Cambridge Plate Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the Triumph of Mannerism 1540-1620 Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Catalogue of the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, II, The Silver Plate Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Le Fitzwilliam Museum. Une Étude de goût L'orfèvrerie parisienne de la Renaissance, Trésors dispersés Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 ---