Glassmaker:
Unknown
(Probably)
Engraver:
Unknown
Clear glass, cut, wheel-engraved, polished and gilt. Facetted ogee bowl; facetted baluster stem with basal collar; plain circular foot. Decorated with a continuous boar and stag hunt in a landscape; gilt band round rim. On the foot there are radiating oval cuts and a circle of paired leaves.
History note: Title of sale, Catalogue of the well-known collection of fine Continental glass formed by the late Viktor Schick, Esq., of Prague, The Property of Mrs Hedwig Schick, p. 15, no. 52, third part; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Height: 12.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1740
CE
-
1750
CE
Accessioned as Silesian or Bohemian but probably Silesian
Glass
composed of
clear glass
Decoration
composed of
gilt
Rim
Diameter 5.5 cm
Foot
Diameter 6 cm
Blown : Clear glass, cut, wheel-engraved and gilt
Accession number: C.353-1991
Primary reference Number: 27832
Packing number: GLA 150
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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