IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140607 accession number: M.52A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 4 June 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver, the oval gadroon-edged frame with scroll branch. The back of the frame has four fittings for nuts (three missing) and a bar pierced with a key-hole shape to so the sconce can be hung from a hook on a wall. The detachable central back plate is engraved with a Chinoiserie scene of hoho birds, exotic plants and a Chinese figure. The scroll branch supports a detachable circular drip pan (A) and screw-on sconce, both decorated with gadrooned borders. Behind the back plate is a wood pad covered with maroon velvet. Pair with M.52B-1961. object type: silver, the oval back plate engraved with a Chinoiserie scene of hoho birds, exotic plants and a Chinese figure. title: sconce NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Louis Colville Gray Clarke MA, LL.D (1881-1960) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140607 PEOPLE ------------------- Chinaman SUBJECTS ------------------- hoho birds hoho birds CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1680 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1680 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Cambridge Plate title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Cambridge Plate Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Dream pictures of Cathay: Chinoiserie on Restoration silver Origins of the oriental style in English decorative art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_52A_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 481 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_52A_1961.jpg height: 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