IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 27850 accession number: C.361-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clear glass, cut and wheel-engraved. Rectangular bowl with canted corners, cut baluster stem with basal collar; octagonal foot. Two sides of the bowl are decorated with allegorical figures, one with a crescent moon her her head, and two flaming hearts with 3 above and the other with a star on her head, one heart and an anchor, surrounded by birds, scrolls, strapwork and flowers. The narrow corner panels each have a circular medallion containing respectively a stag, a doe, a horse and a unicorn in a landscape with formal ornament below. The underisde of the foot is cut with ovals separated by pairs of straight lines, and on the top has a border of triangles and dots. title: wine glass NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/27850 PEOPLE ------------------- figures SUBJECTS ------------------- flaming hearts birds stag Doe horse (animal) unicorn flowers landscape flaming hearts birds stag Doe horse (animal) unicorn flowers landscape CATEGORIES ------ category: glass category: drinking glasses DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown