Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Glassmaker:
Unknown
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Categories
Description
Lead glass. Ogee bowl decorated with burnished gilt border and flower sprays. Opaque twist stem.
Notes
History note: Unknown before testator
Legal notes
D.H. Beves Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 7.2 cm
Height: 15 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1961-10-19)
by
Beves, Donald H.
Dating
18th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Note
Label text from the exhibition ‘Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800’, on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: Wine glass with burnished gilt border and flower sprays, used for toasting, with replica toasting biscuits By the later 1700s, pineapples had become emblematic of welcome, hospitality, and friendship and were served at elegant dinners. Confectioners made pineapple-flavoured tarts, flummeries, jellies, and ices, often in the shape of the fruit. They also baked small ‘toasting biscuits’ decorated with pineapples, for dipping into glasses of sweet fortified wine when toasts were made during dessert. These replica pineapple toasting biscuits were made by Ivan Day, pressed from late eighteenth-century wooden moulds.
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
gilt
Bowl
Materials used in production
Lead-glass
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.182-1961
Primary reference Number: 25768
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 24 November 2020
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
