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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’.
Notes
History note: The donor's family
Legal notes
Given by Miss Jane Sandeman
Measurements and weight
Weight: 174 g
Width: 11.4 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2009-07-13)
by
Sandeman, Jane
Dating
1774
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1782
Components of the work
Bowl
Diameter 8.9 cm
Over Handle
Height 4.5 cm
Decoration
Name And Date
Materials used in production
Silver
Inscription or legends present
- Text: LUD. XVI REX CHRISTIANISS
- Location: On obverse
- Method of creation: Cast
- Type: Legend
- Text: B. DU VIVIER
- Location: On obverse
- Method of creation: Cast
- Type: Signature
- Text: MARIA ANT. AUSTR. FR. ET NAV. REGINA’
- Type: Legend
- Text: M.A. DESHAURAYES 1782
- Location: To right of handle
- Method of creation: Engraving
- Type: Inscription
- Text: JN over S
- Location: To left of handle
- Method of creation: Struck
- Type: Maker's mark
- Text: P crowned
- Location: To left of handle
- Method of creation: Struck
- Type: Warden's mark
Inscription present: but not the A with a frond-like down stroke for 1788
- Text: A’ crowned,
- Location: To left of handle
- Method of creation: Struck
- Type: Charge mark
Inscription present: a shaped rectangle, possibly a hide?
- Location: To right of handle
- Method of creation: Struck
- Type: Discharge mark
Inscription present: a head facing left in a rectangular cartouche with cut corners
- Location: To right of handle and on handle
- Method of creation: Struck
- Type: Mark
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.5-2009
Primary reference Number: 167429
Entry form number: 789
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 10 February 2021
Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
