IDENTIFIERS
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id:	150681
accession number:	M.71-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 20 September 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Gold, aventurine feldspar and enamel; rectangular with cut corners and straight sides and hinged flat lid.  The gold cagework box is set with ten panels (eight round the sides and one in the lid and base) of brown aventurine flecked with gold.  Round the lid, the recessed base and at the top and bottom of the sides the gold mounts are engraved with a guilloche pattern border enamelled in green with white dots.  The side mounts are embossed and chased to resemble pillasters.
object type: gold box set with panels of brown aventurine feldspar
title:	snuff box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's auction 28 June 1934, formerly in the stock of Messrs. Parkes of Vigo Street, London W.1.


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:	Louis C. G. Clarke
creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150681





CATEGORIES
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category: boxes

DATING
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creation date:	1782 - 1783
creation date earliest:	1782
creation date latest:	1783
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.8

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 7.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5.5