IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 25880 accession number: C.556-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 February 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- type: history note value: Purchased Sotheby's, 24th July, 1951, lot 125, £34, ex-collection Milstead LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: D.H. Beves Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/25880 SUBJECTS ------------------- frigate sailing frigate sailing CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 6.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- 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 ---