IDENTIFIERS
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id:	131078
accession number:	M/P.105-1913

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 24 August 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Mother-of-pearl cameos of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-88) and Pierre Corneille (1606-84), both in contemporary dress and both facing in profile to right, with their respective names BUFFON and CORNEILLE in front of them,  set back to back in an oval gold mount with a gold cockle shell at top and bottom centre, the former attached to a suspension ring, and the latter to the stem of a watch key
title:	watch key

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before testator


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Frank Gray Smart
creditline: F.G. Smart Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131078

PEOPLE
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Leclerc, Georges-Louis, comte de Buffon
Corneille, Pierre




CATEGORIES
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category: watches

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Tempus, The Art of Time
CITATIONS
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Watches, Their History, Decoration and Mechanism
Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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