IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 150682 accession number: M.72-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gold and lacquer; rectangular with hinged flat lid and straight sides. The cagework box contains a Japanese lacquer panel on each of its six sides. The lid projects slightly over the sides of the box. The mounts are engraved with reed and ribbon decoration and the box is lined in gold. The lacquer panel on the lid depicts a landscape with flowering trees and two Japanese buildings on stilts; the base depicts pine saplings growing beside a stream; the front side panel depicts part of a leaf; the left side panel depicts a roof and a landscape with trees, and is inlaid with small squares of copper or red enamel; the back side panel depicts part of a landscape and is inlaid with small squares of black stone or enamel; and the right side panel depicts part of a leaf. object type: gold box set with six Japanese lacquer panels title: snuff box LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150682 SUBJECTS ------------------- house stream tree house stream tree CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1768 - 1768 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1768 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Sevin, Pierre (goldsmith) maker: George maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 7.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.3 CITATIONS -------- Les Poinçons de Paris: Répertoire des maîtres-orfèvres de la jurisdiction de Paris depuis le moyen-âge jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle A Guide to Old French Plate Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe The Wrightsman Collection III: Furniture, Snuffboxes, Silver The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Renaissance jewels, gold boxes and objets de vertu Highly Important Snuff Boxes: The Property of the British Rail Pension Fund --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_72_1961.jpg height: 597 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_72_1961.jpg height: 393 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_72_1961.jpg height: 597 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_72_1961.jpg height: 196 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 658 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_72_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 433 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 658 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_72_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 216 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 664 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_72_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 572 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 664 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_72_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 286 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_72_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 438 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_72_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 219 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_284_29.jpg height: 485 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_72_1961_20_284_29.jpg height: 319 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_284_29.jpg height: 485 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_72_1961_20_284_29.jpg height: 160 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_285_29.jpg height: 538 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_72_1961_20_285_29.jpg height: 354 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_72_1961_20_285_29.jpg height: 538 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_72_1961_20_285_29.jpg height: 177 pixels width: 250 pixels