IDENTIFIERS
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id:	25880
accession number:	C.556-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 3 February 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Lead glass. Bucket bowl, wheel-engraved with a frigate and inscribed 'Success to the DEFIANCE Privateer', on opaque twist stem. Plain foot.
title:	wine glass

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased Sotheby's, 24th July, 1951, lot 125, £34, ex-collection Milstead


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: D.H. Beves Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/25880


SUBJECTS
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frigate
sailing
frigate
sailing



CATEGORIES
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category: glass

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 6.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 15.3



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Glass, The Smithsonian Illustrated Library and Antiques
Bequests from Two Cambridge Collectors, The Reverend Alfred Valentine Valentine-Richards MA (1866-1933) and Donald H. Beves MA (1896-1961)
Old English Drinking Glasses
List of Privateers taken from the Daily Advertiser and the London Chronicle
Circle of Glass Collectors, 1962
Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 6th March 1978
L'Association Internationale pour L'Histoire du Verre, Glass Exhibition, 1979
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