Glassmaker: Unknown
Clear glass, cut and wheel-engraved. Facetted ogee bowl; baluster stem with cut shoulders and facets and a basal collar; flat circular foot; and domed cover with a cut cone-shaped finial. The bowl is decorated with a quartered coat of arms with a double-headed eagle crest surounded by strapwork, scrolls and flowers. The rim has a border of scallops. The underside of the foot is cut with radiating ellipses and straight cuts and on top with two sprays of foliage and flowers branching in opposite directions from centre front.
History note: 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: 24.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
18th Century
Circa
1740
CE
-
1750
CE
Glass
composed of
clear glass
Rim
Diameter 7.5 cm
Foot
Diameter 9.4 cm
Goblet
Height 17.2 cm
Bowl
Decoration
Accession number: C.356-1991
Primary reference Number: 27844
Packing number: GLA 155
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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