IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166523 accession number: M.16 & A-1964 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver, parcel-gilt and niello, circular with an almost flat pull-off lid. The gilt lid is nielloed with a map of north Russia, including east Siberia and the Baring Straights. "Northern Ocean" is inscribed in Cyrillic along with the names of various towns and rivers and the degrees longitude. The base of the box is similarly decorated but with a map of north-east Siberia. The sides of the box depict the people of Siberia, their homes, boats, slays, etc. The sides of the lid are nielloed with the rivers and their names. The interior of the box is gilt. object type: silver, parcel-gilt and niello, circular; the lid nielloed with a map of northern Russia title: box LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Arnold J.H. Smith Collection creditline: Bequeathed by A.J. Hugh Smith through the National Art-Collections Fund, 1964 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166523 SUBJECTS ------------------- Siberia Siberia CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes category: objets de vertu DATING ------ culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 17-18 November 1997 Russian Gold and Silver --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_16_20_26_20A_1964_20_280_29.jpg height: 554 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_16_20_26_20A_1964_20_280_29.jpg height: 364 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_16_20_26_20A_1964_20_280_29.jpg height: 554 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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