IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 150654 accession number: PER.M.359 & A-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 24 October 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Horn, carved and pressed. Elongated oval with straight sides. The top of the pull-off lid depicting a view of the city of Rouen, including the river, bridge and cathedral; at the top in relief is the legend 'LA VILLE DE ROUEN'. The base is pressed with a diaper-work pattern, alternate lozenges containing stripes and a star. object type: oval, horn box pressed with a view of Rouen title: snuff box NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known 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/150654 SUBJECTS ------------------- Rouen Rouen 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 ---------- pressing TECHNIQUES ---------- heating CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 13.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.0 CITATIONS -------- Jean Obrisset Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 28 July 1980 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/PER_M_359_1923_20_281_29.jpg height: 564 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_PER_M_359_1923_20_281_29.jpg height: 371 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/PER_M_359_1923_20_281_29.jpg height: 564 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_PER_M_359_1923_20_281_29.jpg height: 186 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/PER_M_359_1923_20_282_29.jpg height: 523 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_PER_M_359_1923_20_282_29.jpg height: 344 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/PER_M_359_1923_20_282_29.jpg height: 523 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_PER_M_359_1923_20_282_29.jpg height: 172 pixels width: 250 pixels