IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 158342 accession number: MAR.M.22.2 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver; stamped from sheet metal and filled with pitch or plaster of Paris; the base with a metal plug covered in green baize. The sconce formed as a Corinthian capital. The plain column is decorated with a spiral of oak leaves and acorns. The domed square base has two gadrooned borders above and below the four sides, three of which contain a Classical urn, the forth contains a vacant oval cartouche; the corners are decorated with scrolling foliage. The shaped square pull-off nozzles have a gadrooned border. (with MAR.M.22.1 & A-1912) object type: silver; Neoclassical, corinthian capitals, oak leaf spiral round the column, urns and foliage on the square base. 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158342 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 CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1774 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1774 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Winter & Co, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.2 dimension: Height units: in value: 12⅝ EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Cambridge Plate CITATIONS -------- Cambridge Plate 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_22_1_20_26_2022_2_20A_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 578 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_MAR_M_22_1_20_26_2022_2_20A_1912.jpg height: 657 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/MAR_M_22_1_20_26_2022_2_20A_1912.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 578 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_MAR_M_22_1_20_26_2022_2_20A_1912.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 250 pixels