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Maker: Unknown
Shell-shaped tortoise shell box, the lid with silver mounts and engraved piqué work strapwork and figures in a shell shape
Tortoise shell; the lid with silver mounts and inlaid with engraved silver piqué work. Shell-shaped with straight sides. The slightly domed lid has stepped silver mounts, two projecting hinges and an arched thumbpiece. The top is decorated to resemble a shell with twelve ribs dividing the surface into thirteen panels. These contain stylised pendant flowers and, in the centre, a naked woman with a cherub on either side. On the base is an impressed plant shape, which would originally have contained a silver piqué ornament.
History note: Not known before testator
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 1.9 cm
Length: 9.3 cm
Width: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Early-Mid#
1710
CE
-
1740
CE
The silver does not bear a maker's mark
Box
composed of
tortoise shell
Hinges And Mounts
composed of
silver
Inlay
composed of
silver
Silver Piqué
Tortoiseshell
Accession number: M.75-1961
Primary reference Number: 150685
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Snuff box" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/150685 Accessed: 2024-04-25 00:04:07
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Accession Number: M.101-1961
Accession Number: M.15-1950
Accession Number: M.42-1929
Accession Number: M.6-1964
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