Post by Joanna on Nov 19, 2013 21:54:58 GMT -5
Cauldron gift no toil or trouble for museum
CAMBRIDGE, Oxfordshire, U.K. – Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum has a new treasure – a bronze cauldron donated by a Cottenham mum.
Caroline Harland said it was believed to have been found by her late grandfather while farming and was handed down by him to his daughter.
Caroline’s mother died in 2011, and since she was a regular visitor to the Fitz, the family asked if the museum wanted the cauldron for its collections.
Caroline said: “I could have sold it as it is probably worth a lot of money, but that is not what my mum would have wanted.”
The museum is rarely able to accept objects, but its applied arts keeper Victoria Avery said the cauldron fitted in well.
Source: Chris Elliott, The Cambridge News, November 18, 2013.