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Classification:

Craft, Silverware

Physical Object Description:

Silver with engraved decoration; sloping cylindrical sides beneath a flared rim; almost flat bottom; standing on a spiral fluted trumpet-shaped foot on circular base. The sloping cylindrical sides beneath a flared rim finish in an almost flat bottom, which stands on a spiral fluted trumpet-shaped foot on a circular base. The body has an applied reeded girdle between two borders of punched beads. At the base of the bowl is a second applied band engraved with an overlapping ovulo border, which is between two applied rope borders. The top of the foot has six sides, which spiral down and out into a stepped circular base; the top being engraved with a border of three lines above a pair of wavy lines.

Dimensions:

14.9 cm

Accession Number:

M/P.4-1941

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1941

Ownership history:

Purchased from the East Gate Gallery, Oxford by Ernest Marsh (1863-1945) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Pottery and Crafts Fund, 1939; presented to The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 20 November 1941

Subject:

Arts and Crafts

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Artworks by Edward Napier Hitchcock Spencer

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