IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 26927 accession number: C.50-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 27 September 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clear lead glass, blown, enamelled in shades of green, with yellow, white and red, and gilded. Bulbous ovoid body with short flared neck, standing on a low foot. The sides are decorated with water weeds above which is a wreath of white and yellow flowers round the base of the neck. The foot is decorated with red criss-cross strokes which extend a short distance up the sides. The rim is gilt. title: carafe NOTES ----- type: history note value: Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read Collection; both died 1971; purchased from Thomas Stainton, executor of the Handley-Read Estate LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Perceval Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/26927 SUBJECTS ------------------- water plants water plants CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1847 - 1847 creation date earliest: 1847 creation date latest: 1847 culture: 19th Century, Late culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Redgrave, Richard maker: John Fell Christy maker: Stangate Glass Works DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 10.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art - The Handley-Read Collection title: Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection British Glass 1830-1900 Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum Nineteenth Century British Glass Felix Summerly's Art Manufactures Victorian Glass The Victoria and Albert Museum. The Making of the Collection Richard Redgrave 1804-1888 Applied Art and Industrial Design 1800 - the present The Glass Cone, Autumn 2004 Furniture and Works of Art ---