IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140656 accession number: MAR.M.23.1 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver; stamped from sheet metal and filled with pitch or plaster of Paris; the base with a wood plug. The spool-shaped sconce is fluted above a border of Greek key decoration. The top of the column is decorated with four ram's masks holding swags; beneath each mask is a slender leg, which forms four corners to the slender vase-shaped column, which is also fluted. Each leg terminates in a hoof standing on the square base set with medallions. The slightly domed square foot is decorated with borders of stiff leaf decoration. Each of its sides is hung with swags of husks over - on three sides - a Classical vase, and on the forth side an oval plaque engraved with a crest. The circular pull-off nozzle has a border of stiff leaf decoration. (with MAR.M.23.2 7 A) object type: silver; Neoclassical, decorated with ram's masks, swags, medallionsand other classical motifs title: candlestick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Not known before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140656 SUBJECTS ------------------- ram ram TECHNIQUES ---------- the components of the candlestick were stamped from sheet metal, which was then seamed and filled with pitch or plaster of Paris. The decoration was chased. stamping (forming) TECHNIQUES ---------- seaming TECHNIQUES ---------- chasing CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1776 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1776 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Winter & Co, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 11⅝ CITATIONS -------- Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks of England, Scotland & Ireland English Goldsmiths and their Marks: a history of the goldsmiths and plate workers in England, Scotland and Ireland Adam Silver, 1765-1795 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_23A_26B_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 547 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MAR_M_23A_26B_1912.jpg height: 695 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_23A_26B_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 547 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MAR_M_23A_26B_1912.jpg height: 347 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/508/785/large_MAR_M_23_1___A_1912_MAR_M_23_1___B_1912_200701_adn21_mas.jpg height: 1424 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/508/785/mid_MAR_M_23_1___A_1912_MAR_M_23_1___B_1912_200701_adn21_mas.jpg height: 695 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/MAR.M.23.1 & A-1912_MAR.M.23.1 & B-1912_200701_adn21_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/508/785/preview_MAR_M_23_1___A_1912_MAR_M_23_1___B_1912_200701_adn21_mas.jpg height: 348 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/508/785/MAR_M_23_1___A_1912_MAR_M_23_1___B_1912_200701_adn21_mas.ptif height: 2265 pixels width: 1629 pixels