sand-glass

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Object Type
Museum number: WB.223
Description: Sand-glass; mounted to revolve; silver parcel-gilt stand; band of scrollwork round neck; circular plate with relief scrolls at each end; plates joined by three twisted columns with two terminal winged figures on each; moulded base with band of scrollwork.
Production date: 1450-1500 (altered 1800-1898)
Production place: Made in: Germany
Materials: silver; glass; gold
Technique: parcel-gilded; mould-made (?); relief; twisted
Dimensions: Height: 9.90 centimetres; Weight: 139 grammes; Width: 4.80 millimetres (base); Depth: 3.80 millimetres (base)
Curator's comments: Provenance: None is recorded. Bibliography: Charles Hercules Read, 'The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898', London, 1902, no. 223 pl. XXX; O.M. Dalton, 'The Waddesdon Bequest', 2nd edn (rev), British Museum, London, 1927, no.223.
Bibliographic references: Read 1902 / The Waddesdon Bequest. Catalogue of the Works of Art Bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898 (223); Dalton 1927 / The Waddesdon Bequest : jewels, plate, and other works of art bequeathed by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild. (223); Shirley and Thornton 2017 / A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (p.53, fig.67)
Location: On display (G2a/dc1)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1898
Acquisition notes: This collection is known as the Waddesdon Bequest under the terms of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild’s will.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: WB.223
Conservation: Treatment: 03 Jul 2015; Treatment: 31 Mar 1998; Treatment: 09 Dec 2009

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