IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 150650 accession number: PER.M.357 & A-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Horn, carved and pressed. Oval with straight sides. The top of the pull-off lid depicting four men drinking in a garden; a maid carries a large jug to their table on which stands a punch bowl and pipes. The initials 'SL' are pressed beneath the foot of the seated drinker. object type: oval, horn box pressed with a vignette of men drinking in a garden title: snuff box NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Spencer George Perceval Collection creditline: Spencer George Perceval Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150650 PEOPLE ------------------- men maid SUBJECTS ------------------- garden drinking garden drinking TECHNIQUES ---------- the base, sides and lid were carved from horn. The pieces were then heated and pressed to form flat sheets, moulding or pressed patterns before being glued to form a box, which was then stained, possibly to resemble bronze. carving TECHNIQUES ---------- staining TECHNIQUES ---------- pressing TECHNIQUES ---------- heating CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1683 - 1727 creation date earliest: 1683 creation date latest: 1727 culture: 17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Lambalet, Samuel DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 10.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.0 CITATIONS -------- Horn, Medals and Straw, A Little Known Link Jean Obrisset --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/PER_M_357_1923_20_281_29.jpg height: 687 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_PER_M_357_1923_20_281_29.jpg height: 452 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/PER_M_357_1923_20_281_29.jpg height: 687 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_PER_M_357_1923_20_281_29.jpg height: 226 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/PER_M_357_1923_20_282_29.jpg height: 540 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_PER_M_357_1923_20_282_29.jpg height: 355 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/PER_M_357_1923_20_282_29.jpg height: 540 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_PER_M_357_1923_20_282_29.jpg height: 178 pixels width: 250 pixels