Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unidentified English glasshouse
Entities
Categories
Description
Lead-glass tankard with engraved foliage, and inscriptions ‘HB’ and ‘Fawthorp’
Colourless lead-glass, blown, and engraved. Cylindrical with an almost vertical 'skirt', an applied band round the middle, and a strap handle with a tooled terminal and small kick at the lower end. Engraved above the band are the script initials 'HB enclosed by curving sprays of foliage extending to left and right towards the handle. Below the band is the name 'Fanthorp' with on each side of it a large scrolling stylized leaf.
Notes
History note: Howard Phillips, London, from whom purchased, February, 1978; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's, Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)
Legal notes
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 15.7 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Dating
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
: possibly later
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Foot
Diameter 10 cm
Decoration
Materials used in production
Lead-glass
Inscription or legends present
- Text: HB and Fawthorp
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Inscription
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.138-2015
Primary reference Number: 206832
Old object number: 9
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.138-2006
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 6 October 2015
Updated: Monday 14 May 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
