IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139859 accession number: M/P.3 & A & B & C-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 27 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver-gilt; the cylindrical body on a domed foot standing on three figures of horsemen, the upper body mirroring the foot, with shallow depression for the salt; the domed cover (A) with spool-shaped finial surmounted by the figure of a warrior. The whole is embossed and chased with an ornate pattern of strapwork containing masks, fruit and flowers . Round the rims are borders of cast egg and tongue decoration and bands of dental engraving. The wooden box (B) has two brass handles, and two half lids hinged with catches, and red velvet lining, and a key (C) object type: silver-gilt with embossed and chased decoration, and finial in the form of a warrior title: salt NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known before Leonard Daneham Cunliffe LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139859 PEOPLE ------------------- warrior horseman SUBJECTS ------------------- fruit flower fruit flower TECHNIQUES ---------- The domed foot, convex rim, shallow dish for the salt, cover and the three parts for the knop were all raised. They, together with the cylindrical body, were embossed, chased and engraved, and soldered together with the decorative borders. The three feet and finial were cast and soldered to the body and cover. embossing TECHNIQUES ---------- chasing CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1583 - 1584 creation date earliest: 1583 creation date latest: 1584 culture: 16th Century, Late culture: Elizabeth I CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Weight units: g value: 522 dimension: Weight units: oz:dwt value: 16:15 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) title: Late Elizabethan Art title: Cambridge Plate CITATIONS -------- Late Elizabethan Art Cambridge Plate Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_P_3_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_20_26_20C_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 520 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_P_3_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_20_26_20C_1938.jpg height: 731 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_P_3_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_20_26_20C_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 520 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_P_3_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_20_26_20C_1938.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_3_20_26_20A_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 506 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MP_3_20_26_20A_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 751 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_3_20_26_20A_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 506 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MP_3_20_26_20A_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_3_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 529 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MP_3_1938.jpg height: 718 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_3_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 529 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MP_3_1938.jpg height: 359 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_3_20_26_20A_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 551 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MP_3_20_26_20A_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 363 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MP_3_20_26_20A_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 551 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MP_3_20_26_20A_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels