IDENTIFIERS
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id:	167429
accession number:	M.5-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 10 February 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: the donor's family


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Miss Jane Sandeman

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167429





CATEGORIES
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category: silver

DATING
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creation date:	1774 - 1782
creation date earliest:	1774
creation date latest:	1782


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 174

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 11.4