Glassmaker: uncertain
Clear lead-glass, blown, blown-moulded and pincered. The small hemispherical bowl has a wide everted folded rim, and heavy gadrooning on underside, rests on a quatrefoil hollow knop between collars, supported by a taller flaring conical bowl with folded rim and gadrooning to half its height
History note: C. Kirkby Mason (d. 1929); Sotheby's, Catalogue of the Well-known collection of English Glass. The property of the late C. Kirkby Mason, Esq., Sold by order of the executors, probably First Part, 27 April 1929, lot 136 ?; sold to Churchill for £20; or Second part, 21 November 1929, lot ? (none illustrated). Donald H. Beves ( 6 March 1896- 6 July 1961)
D.H. Beves Bequest
Diameter: 9.2 cm
Height: 11.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-10-19) by Beves, Donald H.
17th Century, Late
Circa
1677
-
1685
Possibly from the Savoy glass-house of George Ravenscroft, or his successor Hawley Bishopp
Bowl
Decoration
uncertain Lead-glass
Accession number: C.596-1961
Primary reference Number: 24909
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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