IDENTIFIERS
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id:	156400
accession number:	RTR.M.15

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 4 October 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Tortoise shell with silver-gilt mounts and engraved gold piqué and piqué point work.  Rectangular with straight sides and moulded projecting edges.  The flat lid has a silver-gilt rim mount and two hinges.  The top is decorated with a vignette of a wolf carrying a bone, a spotted hound, two birds and two insects with flowering trees in the background, surrounded by piqué point plants and scrolls.  The base is similarly decorated with a smaller vignette of a hound chasing a bird and butterfly. The interior edge of the lid is set with a gilt metal border.
object type: rectangular, tortoise shell box with silver-gilt mounts inlaid with gold piqué work wolf, hound and birds
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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156400


SUBJECTS
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hound
wolf
bird
butterfly
insect
tree
hound
wolf
bird
butterfly
insect
tree



CATEGORIES
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category: boxes

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1720
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1720
culture:	18th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown