IDENTIFIERS
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id:	159918
accession number:	MAR.M.55 & A-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 24 August 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Silver-gilt and rock crystal; the rock crystal body, baluster stem, slightly domed foot and domed cover are all hexagonal and slightly wider than deep.  The cover has an attached baluster finial.  The reliquary and cover are mounted with borders of silver-gilt with pierced and cast scroll decoration.  A putti head is engraved on one side of the tube, and scrolls are engraved on the underside of the base to cover flaws in the rock crystal.  The knop on the stem is engraved with a band of roundels.
object type: silver-gilt and rock crystal; hexagonal body and domed cover both of rock crystal, mounted with pierced and engraved silver-gilt.
title:	reliquary

NOTES
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type: history note
value: not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay


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
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/159918


SUBJECTS
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CATEGORIES
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category: silver

DATING
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creation date:	1550 - 1650
creation date earliest:	1550
creation date latest:	1650
culture:	16th Century, Late-17th Century, Early?

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 29.2

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 11½



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Foundations for the Future
CITATIONS
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Foundations for the Future. The University of Cambridge
Freiburger Werke aus Bergkristall. Kristallschliff der Spätgotik und in den Jahrzehnten um 1600
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