IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166625 accession number: M.17 & A-X-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 22 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ivory, engraved and painted in green, black yellow and pink, with gilt metal hinges. Rectangular, the base with straight sides. The moulded sides of the lid projecting slightly over the base. The two projecting hinges are pinned to a metal scroll inside the box. The upper surface and interior of the lid and the base are engraved in outline in black and painted on a green ground. The top of the lid is decorated with a roundel of Cupid approaching a thorny bush in the midst of which is a heart aflame. The scroll above the roundel is inscribed 'apres les peines les plaisirs'. The roundel is surrounded by scrolling foliage, flowers, pendant garlands and a shell in green, pink and yellow. At each corner is a swag of green fruit on a pink stippled ground. The inside of the lid is decorated with a dolphin surrounded by green, pink and yellow scrolling foliage and flowers within a black border beneath which is the inscription 'Mariaval le Jeune a Rouen fecit'. The base is decorated with a pink, green and yellow spray of three flowers in an ivory border. The box contains 19 long narrow counters decorated on both sides with a floral design on a green ground, and five elongated octagonal counters decorated on both sides with a green floral border, and numbered in black '5', '10', '20', '40' or '50'. Each counter is drilled with a small hole near the edge. (with M.14 & A-R-1938, M.15 & A-Z-1938 and M.16 & A-Y-1938) object type: rectangular, ivory box painted in colours on a green ground; the lid inscribed 'apres les peines les plaisirs' title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: S.E. Kennedy; Christie, Manson & Woods, 18-22 March, 1918, Important collection of objects of art, antiquities, armour and arms, on 22 March, LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166625 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- heart dolphin bush heart dolphin bush CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Mariaval, Le Jeune DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 8.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.4 CITATIONS -------- Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 16 December 1982 English and Continental Silver, Portrait Miniatures and Objects of Vertu European Ceramics, Silver and Vertu European Ceramics, Silver and Vertu --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_17_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 633 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_17_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 416 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_17_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 633 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_17_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 208 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_17_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 693 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_17_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 456 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_17_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 693 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_17_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 228 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_17_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_17_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 486 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_17_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_17_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 243 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_17_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 542 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_17_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 357 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_17_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 542 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_17_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 178 pixels width: 250 pixels