IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167429 accession number: M.5-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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’. object type: Silver wine taster with applied, punched and engraved decoration, set with a portrait medallion title: wine taster NOTES ----- type: history note value: the donor's family LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Miss Jane Sandeman STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167429 CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1774 - 1782 creation date earliest: 1774 creation date latest: 1782 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Weight units: g value: 174 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.4