IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 26920 accession number: C.604 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 3 October 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Heavily crizzled lead glass, with moulded and trailed decoration. Globular body with a tall slender neck with string, loop handle with a kick at the base, and solid tapering stopper with milled top. The lower part of the body is gadrooned. The upper part is trailed with arcading enclosing circular prunts with a five pointed star motif. In the spandrels there are smaller raspberry prunts. title: decanter NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator 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/26920 CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1670 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1670 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Ravenscroft, George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 19.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Age of Charles II title: Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition 1937-1962 title: Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Mission Impossible? Ethics and Choices in Conservation CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1961 The Age of Charles II Circle of Glass Collectors Commemorative Exhibition, 1937-1962 Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum The Decanter, An Illustrated History of Glass from 1650 Cambridge Connoisseur English Glass and the Glass used in England, c. 400-1940 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) Mission Impossible? Ethics and Choices in Conservation, Brief Guide ---