IDENTIFIERS
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id:	166845
accession number:	MAR.M.151-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 25 September 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Fruit wood; the round bowl and handle are carved all over with religious subjects and figures.  The interior of the bowl depicts the Nativity; the back of the bowl depicts the Annunciation, all within inscribed borders.  The handle depicts a naked figure carrying a cross possibly representing a young John the Baptist, the crowned Virgin Mary and Child, and the finial is in the form of a boy, possibly Christ, holding a hammer and nails.
object type: fruit wood; the round bowl carved with the Nativity on the front and the Annunciation on the back
title:	spoon

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


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/166845

PEOPLE
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Christ
Virgin Mary
John the Baptist
angel




TECHNIQUES
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The wood was carved
carving

CATEGORIES
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category: cutlery

DATING
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creation date:	1650 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1650
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	17th Century, Late-18th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 19



CITATIONS
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Cutlery: From Gothic to Art Deco: The J. Hollander Collection
Katalog der Besteck Sammlung: Franz Emmerich Graf Lamberg
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