IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118971 accession number: M.11 & A-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 September 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver, the body and cover embossed, chased, and matted, with applied plain neck and foot. The base is made separately from the sides. Of robust baluster form with incurved neck and foot, domed cover with projecting rim, and a finial comprising a depressed globular knop made in two halves, surmounted by a smaller ball. On three sides of the body there are plain oval cartouches flanked by scrolling foliage. The rest of the surface is decorated in relief with putti amongst scrolling acanthus foliage and flowers against a matted ground. The incurved neck and foot are plain. The projecting edge of the cover is decorated with bound laurel, and the dome with three circular cartouches containing a stylized bud, two of which are flanked by putti with swags below them, and by acanthus foliage which extends round the sides, against a matted ground. In the centre there is a plain silver band from which the finial rises. The depressed globular knop is decorated with upward and downward pointing acanthus foliage, radiating from the bottom and top respectively, and the ball above has a stylized flower on its top. object type: Silver, embossed and chased with putti amongst scrolling foliage against a matted ground; plain neck and foot; replacement knob title: ginger jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921), Brook House, Mayfair, London; his granddaughter, Lady Edwina Ashley, who married in 1922 Lord Louis Mountbatten; by descent to the vendor from whom purchased through Sotheby's LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Cunliffe and Perceval Funds, aided by grants from the National Art Collections Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118971 PEOPLE ------------------- Cassel, Ernest, Sir putto SUBJECTS ------------------- acanthus acanthus CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1673 - 1674 creation date earliest: 1673 creation date latest: 1674 culture: 17th Century, third quarter# culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Bodendeich, Jacob DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 28.5 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 11¼ dimension: Height units: cm value: 46 dimension: Height units: in value: 18⅛ dimension: Weight units: g value: 2900 dimension: Weight units: oz: dwt value: 93: 5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Cassel Silver title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) title: Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain CITATIONS -------- The Late Sir Ernest Cassel’s Collection of Old English Plate. - II Treasures at Salters' Hall The Cassel Silver 2005 Review, The Annual Report of the National Art Collections Fund The Fitzwilliam Museum Review 2004-2006 Feast & Fast. 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