IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 119263 accession number: M.13-1981 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver with many traces of gilding, and engraved decoration. The flagon stands on a stepped and slightly domed foot, the step of which is pierced with a series of holes. The tapering cylindrical body is annulated with roll moldings, one at the top and bottom, and two pairs at intervals between. The cover is attached to the body by means of a hinge with a trefoil-shaped thumbpiece pierced by four hearts; the lower part of the side of the cover is pierced with a series of groups of four holes. The S-shaped spout is engraved with a pair of spiralling lines, and is linked to the body by a cinquefoil within a circle. The curling ends of the flat, ear-shaped handle terminate in fleurs-de-lys. Below the moulding at the top of the body there is a border of engraved scallops and small circles. Between the upper pair of roll mouldings there is a running trefoil-ended cross pattern against a diagonally hatched ground. Between the lower pair is the inscription 'TE LAVDAMVS TIBI BENEDICIMVS' preceded by a Cross, and with a lozenge between TE and LAVDAMVS and between TIBI and BENEDICIMVS. On a disc inserted under the foot is the inscription 'To the Glory of God and in loving remembrance of Thomas Barber who fell asleep in Jesus on the + Feast of the Circumcision 1863. +'. object type: Silver with many traces of gilding and engraved decoration, including the inscription 'TE LAVDAMVA TIBI BENEDICIMVS', and on the underside of the foot 'To the Glory of God and in loving remembrance of Thomas Brber who fell asleep in Jesus on the + Feast of the Circumcision 1863. +' title: altar flagon NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Fine Art Society, 113 New Bond Street, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum with Grant-in-Aid from the Victoria and Albert Musuem STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119263 PEOPLE ------------------- Barber, Thomas (d. 1863) CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1861 - 1862 creation date earliest: 1861 creation date latest: 1862 culture: Victoria I culture: 19th Century, second quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Keith, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 10⅜ dimension: Weight units: g value: 680 dimension: Weight units: oz : dwt value: 21 : 17 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Architect-Designers Pugin to Mackintosh CITATIONS -------- The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition, 1862 A History of the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Company of the City of London Fitzwilliam Museum. The Annual Reports of the Syndacate and of the friends of the Fitzwilliam for the year ending 31 December 1994 William Butterfield, 1814-1900 British Decorative Arts from 1880 to the Present day The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths Jewellers and Allied Traders 1838-1914, from the London Assay Office Registers --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/856/large_M_13_1981_mas.jpg height: 1502 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/856/mid_M_13_1981_mas.jpg height: 733 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.13-1981_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/856/preview_M_13_1981_mas.jpg height: 367 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/507/856/M_13_1981_mas.ptif height: 3435 pixels width: 2342 pixels