IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 26398 accession number: C/G.1 & A-1935 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 20 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Opaque white glass painted in polychrome enamels; drip-pan of enamelled copper with gilt-metal rim. Incised twist stem between multiple knops. Domed circular foot. The foot is painted with flowers and insects, and there are sprays of flowers on the nozzle and drip pan. title: taperstick NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ralph Griffin creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/26398 SUBJECTS ------------------- insects flowers insects flowers CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 8.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 17 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum Glass, The Smithsonian Illustrated Library and Antiques Gilding the Lily, Rare Forms of Decoration on English Glass of the Later 18th Century 50 Years of Collecting: The Decorative Arts of Georgian England ---