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Maker: Unknown
Baluster-shaped, enamelled handle for a walking cane, set with a snuff box, and painted with three polychrome miniatures on a pale blue ground
Copper, enamelled in polychrome, with gilt metal mounts. Baluster-shaped handle for a walking cane set with a hemi-spherical gilt metal snuff box with a hinged lid. On two sides and the lid are painted miniatures within rococo raised gilt borders. The pale blue ground decorated with white diaper-work and geometric patterns of gold and white dots. The rim of the lid and box have gilt metal mounts and thumbpiece. The miniature on the lid depicts a Classical ruin in a pastoral scene; the miniature on the front depicts a man and cow in a rural landscape with a church tower and cottage in the background, and the miniature on the back depicts a spray of flowers on a white ground.
History note: Unknown before testator
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Diameter: 4.5 cm
Height: 5.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1750
CE
-
1775
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamel
gold
Miniature
composed of
enamel
Box
composed of
copper
Handle
composed of
copper
Surface Of Mount
composed of
gold
Accession number: M.101-1961
Primary reference Number: 156363
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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