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one of a pair of toilet boxes
Silversmith: FW
Silver; cylindrical; the pull-off lid engraved with armorials within plumed mantling. The coat-of-arms is argent on a pile gules three owls of the field, with a crest of a lynx. (with M.35.2 & A-1961)
History note: The crest and coat-of arms are for the Cropley family of Suffolk. Acquired before October 1948 by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, LL.D., Leckhampton, Cambridge.
Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest
Diameter: 9 cm
Diameter: 3½ in
Height: 4.9 cm
Height: 1⅞ in
Weight: 116 g
Weight: 2:14 oz:dwt
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
17th Century, Late#
Charles I
1677
CE
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1678
CE
Armorials
Inscription present: 'FW' a star and three pellets below in a shaped shield
Accession number: M.35.1 & A-1961
Primary reference Number: 140590
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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