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The Shelly bowl and dish
(c. 1745)
- Medium
- glass (wheel-engraved)
- Measurements
- (a-b) 9.1 × 16.4 cm diameter (overall)
- Place/s of Execution
- England
- Accession Number
- 1754.a-b-D5
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
William and Margaret Morgan Endowment, 1968
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Mr Hugh M Morgan AC and Mrs Elizabeth Morgan - Gallery location
- 17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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This toasting bowl and stand bear the crest of the Shelley family – of which the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was a member. There are three other known bowls from the set. Such bowls may have served to facilitate toasts to the king ‘over the water’: a glass of wine was waved over a bowl full of water as a toast was made to the health of the king. The appearance of Jacobite emblems and a family crest on the one object is rare – very few associated themselves with the Stuart cause so boldly.
- Physical description
- The Shelly Bowl and dish: bowl, waisted round funnel shape, both dish and bowl engraved with Shelly crest.