IDENTIFIERS
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id:	150750
accession number:	M.14-1948

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 18 October 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Enamel on copper with gilt metal mounts; rectangular with straight sides and hinged slightly domed lid.  The box is painted with pastoral scenes in coloured enamels on a white enamelled ground.  Depicted on the lid are two lovers in a wooded glade with Cupid flying above carrying a wreath; inside the lid is a shepherdess; on the front side are a pair of lovers; and on the three other sides is a young man or woman in a pastoral setting; painted on the base in green are some shrubs and a tree. The gilt metal mount round the lid is engraved with a pattern of lozenges on a reeded ground and has an arched thumbpiece.  Inside the box the lower mount has a fluted edge.
object type: enamel on copper; rectangular, the lid painted with a pastoral view of a two lovers and Cupid
title:	snuff box

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
creditline: Given by P.C. Manuk & Miss C. D. Coles through the National Art Collections Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150750

PEOPLE
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Cupid
man
woman




CATEGORIES
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category: boxes

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, third quarter

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.8

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 8.3

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 6.6



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