IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166865 accession number: MAR.M.175-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 14 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Mother-of-pearl and gilt metal; unusually small, the shallow fig-shaped mother-of-pearl bowl has a broad rat-tail carved on the back. It is pinned to a gilt metal narrow stem, which is engraved on the back with scrolls. It terminates in a cast finial in the form of a scroll supporting the head of a Roman soldier. object type: mother-of-pearl and gilt metal; unusually small, with fig-shaped mother-of-pearl bowl on a narrow gilt metal handle with finial of a Roman soldier's head title: spoon NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166865 PEOPLE ------------------- Roman soldier TECHNIQUES ---------- The mother-of-pearl bowl was carved. The gilt metal handle and finial were cast. The handle was pinned to the bowl. carving CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 17th Century-18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.8