IDENTIFIERS
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id:	162325
accession number:	M.52B-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 4 June 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Silver, the oval gadroon-edged frame with scroll branch. The back of the frame has four fittings for nuts 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 pagoda. 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.52A-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
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Louis Colville Gray Clarke MA, LL.D (1881-1960), Cambridge


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:	Louis C. G. Clarke
creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162325


SUBJECTS
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hoho birds
pagoda
hoho birds
pagoda



CATEGORIES
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category: silver

DATING
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creation date:	1680 - 1680
creation date earliest:	1680
creation date latest:	1680
culture:	17th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Cambridge Plate
title:	Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
CITATIONS
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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
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