IDENTIFIERS
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id:	26334
accession number:	C.564-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 16 March 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Faintly crizzled lead-glass, blown. Circular with moulded gadrooned base, straight sides, two scrolled handles, and at right angles to them, a curved spout with raven's head seal at base.
title:	posset pot

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sold Sotheby's, 8 December 1952, lot 93


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
collection:	D.H. Beves
creditline: D.H. Beves Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/26334


SUBJECTS
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raven
raven



CATEGORIES
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category: glass

DATING
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creation date:	1677 - 1678
creation date earliest:	1677
creation date latest:	1678
culture:	17th Century, Late
culture:	Charles II

CREATORS
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maker: Ravenscroft, George

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 7.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Age of Charles II
title:	Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition 1937-1962
title:	Exhibition of English Glass
title:	Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Cambridge Connoisseur
The Age of Charles II
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1961
Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition, 1937-1962
Some Important Early English Glasses Part I
George Ravenscroft and his Contribution to English Glass Making
George Ravenscroft, New Light on the Development of his 'Christalline Glasses'
Exhibition of English Glass
English Glasses
Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century English Glass
Glass, The Smithsonian Illustrated Library and Antiques
English Glass and the Glass used in England, c. 400-1940
Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Glass
Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Fine British & European Ceramics & Glass
Fine British and European Ceramics & Glass
Glass of the Alchemists, Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750
The Development of lead-crystal glass in London and Dublin 1672-1682: a reappraisal
Bequests from Two Cambridge Collectors, The Reverend Alfred Valentine Valentine-Richards MA (1866-1933) and Donald H. Beves MA (1896-1961)
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