IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166879 accession number: MAR.M.176-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Agate and gilt metal; oval bowl and short cylincrical handle carved of lilac agate with gilt metal mounts and terminal. Pinned to the bowl is a gilt metal leaf-shaped engraved mount, which is attached by an openwork triple scroll to the ring-shaped mount on the agate handle. The handle terminates with another ring-shaped mount on which sits a finial in the form of a half length female term. object type: lilac agate and gilt metal; oval bowl and handle with gilt metal mounts and female finial 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/166879 PEOPLE ------------------- woman TECHNIQUES ---------- casting TECHNIQUES ---------- soldering CATEGORIES ------ category: cutlery DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 13.8