IDENTIFIERS
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id:	166846
accession number:	MAR.M.152-1912

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 with an ornately carved handle.  The front of the bowl is engraved at the top with a pattern of scrolls, round the rim is an inscribed border.  The back of the bowl is carved with an angel pointing to the sky and a cherub holding a staff within an inscribed border.  The base of the handle is carved with the Virgin Mary feeding the Christ Child; above her is a naked lute player, and the terminal is a mermaid.
object type: Fruit wood; ornately carved; the back of the round bowl depicting an angel pointing to the sky
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/166846

PEOPLE
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Christ
Virgin Mary
angel
mermaid




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: 18