bottle from cruet
Silversmith:
uncertain
Glassmaker:
Unknown
Cut glass with silver cover (with frame and four more glass bottles with silver covers and three bottle labels, see M.4-1948, M.4.1-1948, M.4.2 & A-1948, M.4.3 & A-1948, M.4.4 & A-1948, M.4.6 & A-1948, M.4.7-1948, M.4.8-1948 and M.4.9-1948)
Glass, blown and cut. The straight-sided bottle is cut with a geometric pattern of triangles, hexagons and zigzags. The pull-off silver cover has a narrow gadrooned rim below a low dome, which is sumounted by a shaped-square finial.
Given by C.D. Rotch Esq.
Width: 6 cm
Width: 2¼ in
Method of acquisition: Given (1948-04-16) by Rotch, Claude Dickason
18th Century, third quarter
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
The silver covers are unmarked
Cover
composed of
silver
Bottle
composed of
glass
To Top Of Finial
Height 18.4 cm
Height 7¼ in
Glass
Silver Cover
Silver Decoration
Silver Finial
Accession number: M.4.5 & A-1948
Primary reference Number: 157582
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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