IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77238 accession number: M.2 & A-1979 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 22 July 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Wassail cup and cover of lignum vitae, carved and engine-turned. The cup supported by a fluted baluster stem and circular spreading foot. The interior and underside of the foot are varnished, while the exterior has traces of varnish. Bucket bowl and slightly domed cover with an acorn finial. The foot and cover are decorated with radiating engine turned arcs, ellipses and wavy lines. The lower part of the bowl is gadrooned and encircled by a scalloped moulding. Two thirds of the way up, above it, is plain moulding. title: wassail cup and cover NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Owen Evans-Thomas 23 September 1930; Captain S. W. Sykes. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Sophia Geraldine Fry. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77238 TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- varnishing TECHNIQUES ---------- engine turning CATEGORIES ------ category: woodwork DATING ------ creation date: 1660 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1660 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24 CITATIONS -------- Domestic Utensils in Wood Treen and Other Wooden Bygones --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_2_20_26_20A_1979_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_M_2_20_26_20A_1979_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_2_20_26_20A_1979_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_M_2_20_26_20A_1979_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_2_20_26_20A_1979_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_M_2_20_26_20A_1979_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_2_20_26_20A_1979_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_M_2_20_26_20A_1979_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_2_1979_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_M_2_1979_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_2_1979_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_M_2_1979_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_2_1979_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_M_2_1979_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_2_1979_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_M_2_1979_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels