IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 150683 accession number: M.73-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 20 September 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tortoise shell and gold; the shaped rectangular gold box has a hinged lid. The lid and base are set with tortoise shell plaques within moulded gold borders. The tortoise shell lid is decorated with a gold piqué work Chinoiserie vignette of a man in Oriental dress with two dwarves, one playing a horn and the other with an exotic bird, on a staircase and surrounded by exotic trees and flowers. The base is similarly decorated with a smaller vignette of hoho bird and tree. object type: tortoise shell and gold; shaped rectangular with a gold piqué work Chinoiserie vignette title: snuff box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at The Hague in July 1902 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/150683 PEOPLE ------------------- man dwarf SUBJECTS ------------------- bird hoho bird tree flower bird hoho bird tree flower CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1717 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1717 creation date latest: 1722 culture: 18th Century, Early# culture: Louis XIV or Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.4 dimension: Length units: cm value: 8.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.4 CITATIONS -------- The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe Fine Silver and Vertu --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_73_1961.jpg height: 538 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_73_1961.jpg height: 354 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_73_1961.jpg height: 538 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_73_1961.jpg height: 177 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_73_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 624 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_73_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 411 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_73_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 624 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_73_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_73_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 624 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_73_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 411 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_73_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 624 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_73_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 205 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_73_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 576 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_73_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 379 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_73_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 576 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_73_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 189 pixels width: 249 pixels