IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 27362 accession number: C.14 & A-1970 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bowl and stand. Cut glass. The bowl is oval with deep sloping sides and cusped rim. The base is cut with eight pointed leaves radiating from the centre and with intersecting lines forming a series of triangles round the central motif. The sides are cut with an all-over pattern of curved lines forming pointed leaves with diamond-shaped spaces between them. About half way up the sides there is a series of elliptical motifs, placed horizontally within the diamond-shaped spaces. The stand is oval with a wide, concave curved rim and a deep well to take the bowl. The base is cut with an eight-pointed star, the rim en suite with the bowl. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Whittlesford LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Sir Hamilton Kerr, 1970 and transferred from Whittlesford to the Fitzwilliam, 1975. Registered, 1979. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/27362 TECHNIQUES ---------- cutting (glassworking) CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown