Silversmith: Green, Richard
Silver: embossed and chased with spiral fluting, a ropework border and a scrolling cartouche
Silver; the inverted bell-shaped bowl with tucked-in base and flat bottom between two double-scroll cast handles. The lower third of the body embossed with spiral fluting beneath a ropework girdle and three punched borders of stylised leaves. In the centre front is a vacant oval cartouche within an embossed border of scalework, scrolls and leaves
History note: Not known before testator; retained during her lifetime by Mrs Riches
T.H. Riches Bequest, 1935
Height: 9 cm
Height: 3½ in
Weight: 210 g
Weight: 6: 15 oz: dwt
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1935) by Riches, Thomas Henry
18th Century, Early#
Queen Anne
1705
CE
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1706
CE
Across The Handles
Width 16 cm
Width 6 1/4 in
Body
Decoration
Handles
Inscription present: Britannia
Accession number: M.6-1950
Primary reference Number: 119243
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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