Factory: Capodimonte Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain lid of a snuffbox. Moulded in low relief with shells on the top, decorated with enamel colours of pale pink, flesh pink, green, grey, black, red, purple, and a minute quality of blue. Of rounded oval outline with one straight side, very slightly convex. The top is painted naturalistically with shells and coral. On the underside is a half length portrait of a lady facing front, head turned slightly to her right. She wears flowers in her hair, an earring, a low-necked bodice with lace frill, a black cloak with a pale purple lining and has a red drape on her left arm which is concealed by it
Charles Brinsley Marlay
Height: 1 cm
Length: 6.5 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century
1745
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1750
Moulding
Enamelling
Bas-relief
Accession number: MAR.C.46-1912
Primary reference Number: 206981
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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