IDENTIFIERS
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id:	119271
accession number:	M.1-1989

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 23 January 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Silver: in the shape of a Cambridge ale jug, the body with sloping cylindrical sides and slightly tucked-in base and flat bottom.  The narrow neck with plain moulded rings below a slightly everted rim.  The broad handle is concave down the centre and joins the body near the base with a flat spatulate terminal.  The sides of the body are matted and engraved with exotic birds and tropical flowers and foliage (including humming birds and passion flowers).  The interior is lightly gilt.
object type: silver; in the shape of a Cambridge ale jug, the body matted and engraved with exotic birds amid flora
title:	jug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's sale 'Important English, Irish & Scottish Silver', 17 November 1988,  lot 195


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Purchased from the G.H.W. Rylands Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119271


SUBJECTS
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bird
passion flower
flower
leaves
bird
passion flower
flower
leaves



TECHNIQUES
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The hollow handle was seamed down its length.  The body was raised or spun, then the base neck and handle were soldered on.  The body was engraved, and the interior gilt.
soldering

CATEGORIES
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category: silver

DATING
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creation date:	1874 - 1875
creation date earliest:	1874
creation date latest:	1875
culture:	19th Century, third quarter#
culture:	Victoria I

CREATORS
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maker: Smith, Stephen

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 845

dimension: Weight
units: oz : dwt
value: 27 : 3

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 17

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 6⅝



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Town and Gown: Cambridge on Parade
CITATIONS
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Important English, Irish and Scottish Silver
The Annual Reports of the syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the year ending 31 December 1987
The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths Jewellers and Allied Traders 1838-1914, from the London Assay Office Registers
Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959
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