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Girl with basket of roses
Maker: Unknown
Navette-shaped horn box with gold piqué work; the lid set with a miniature of a seated girl holding a basket of roses
Horn with gold mounts and inlaid gold piqué work; the lid set with a miniature painted in watercolour and bodycolour probably on card. Pointed oval (navette-shaped) with straight sides. The top of the flat lid is inlaid with a gold piqué wriggle work border; in the centre is a navette-shaped miniature in faded browns, blues and pinks depicting a seated girl, facing three-quarters left, wearing a hat and holding a basket of pink roses. The gold mount round the miniature, the hinge and the thumbpiece are engraved with bright cut borders. A vacant oval impressed cartouche in the base indicates some decoration is missing.
Given by Miss Caroline Nias in memory of her mother Lady Nias, to whose father John Laing the object belonged
Height: 2.8 cm
Length: 9.5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1929-12-04) by Nias, Caroline, Miss
18th Century, Late#
1780
CE
-
1800
CE
Box
composed of
horn
tortoise shell
Miniature
composed of
paint
Inlay
composed of
gold
Mounts
composed of
gold
Gold
Horn Or Tortoiseshel
Painting
Accession number: M.42-1929
Primary reference Number: 150735
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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