Silver wine taster with applied, punched and engraved decoration, set with a portrait medallion
Silver wine taster with applied, punched and engraved decoration, set with a portrait medallion. Shallow circular bowl with curved sides and loop handle; the base of the bowl set with a portrait medallion of Louis XVI. Inside the bowl is a punched border of ovals, pellets and fleur-de-lis. On the base is a rope edged border which acts as a foot; above this, on the side opposite the handle, is an applied vine and grapes with an animal, possibly a fox, stretching into the branches. The loop handle has a border of two deeply incised lines, and a fleur-de-lis applied to the top. The legends on the medallion are: on the obverse ‘LUD. XVI REX CHRISTIANISS’, and signature ‘B. DU VIVIER’; and on the reverse, which depicts Marie Antoinette, ‘MARIA ANT. AUSTR. FR. ET NAV. REGINA’. The rim, to the right of the handle, is inscribed ‘M.A. DESHAURAYES 1782’.
History note: The donor's family
Given by Miss Jane Sandeman
Weight: 174 g
Width: 11.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2009-07-13) by Sandeman, Jane
1774 - 1782
Bowl
Diameter 8.9 cm
Over Handle
Height 4.5 cm
Decoration
Name And Date
Inscription present: but not the A with a frond-like down stroke for 1788
Inscription present: a shaped rectangle, possibly a hide?
Inscription present: a head facing left in a rectangular cartouche with cut corners
Accession number: M.5-2009
Primary reference Number: 167429
Entry form number: 789
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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