IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 119326 accession number: M.10-1982 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver-gilt; with embossed, chased and engraved ornament, the handle cast and chased. The enlongated pear-shaped body rising at the front into a curved lip. The short knopped stem stands on a domed foot with circular shaped edge. The scroll handle is surmounted by the body of a winged dragon whose tail coils round the handle. The body of the ewer is embossed and chased with spiral fluting and rocaille cartouches which have tails of flowers and foliage. Engraved at the back and on each side of the neck is a spray of flowers, and under the lip is a rocaille cartouche enclosing the crest of Ormonde beneath the coronet of a Marquis. The foot is similarly fluted and embossed and chased with spiral fluting, rocaille cartouches and flowers. (with M.11-1982 and M.10A-1982) object type: Silver-gilt; embossed and chased with spiral fluting and rocaille decoration. The handle surmounted by a dragon. title: ewer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Walter Butler, 18th Earl of Ormonde, created 1st Marquis of Ormonde, 1816, and by descent in the Ormonde family. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Allocated by the Minister for the Arts from the list of objects accepted in lieu of capital taxes from the estate of the Most Honourable James Arthur Norman Butler, 6th Marquis of Ormonde STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119326 PEOPLE ------------------- Butler, Walter, 1st Marquis of Ormonde SUBJECTS ------------------- dragon dragon CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: José I CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Weight units: g value: 1074 dimension: Weight units: oz:dwt value: 34:10 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Bowes Museum title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- The Annual Reports of the syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the year ending 31 December 1987 Treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum Importante Orfèvrerie Européenne boîtes en or et objects de vitrine ---