IDENTIFIERS
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id:	140594
accession number:	M.3A-1987

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Silver; the scallop shell-shaped dish, has a shell-shaped thumb-piece, and stands on three scroll legs with trefoil capitals and shell-shaped feet
title:	shell-shaped dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: The family of Lady Butterfield, Cambridge


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: Given by Lady Butterfield

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140594


SUBJECTS
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shell
shell



CATEGORIES
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category: silver

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1756
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1756
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Alchorne, Charles

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 108

dimension: Weight
units: oz : dwt
value: 3 : 9



CITATIONS
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The Annual Reports of the syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the year ending 31 December 1987
London Goldsmiths, 1697-1837: Their marks and lives, from original registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and other sources
Silver and Objects of Vertu
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