IDENTIFIERS
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id:	206981
accession number:	MAR.C.46-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 19 November 2015
updated:	Wednesday 19 October 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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
title:	lid

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
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: Charles Brinsley Marlay

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206981





TECHNIQUES
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moulding
TECHNIQUES
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enamelling
TECHNIQUES
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bas-relief

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1750
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1750
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Capodimonte Porcelain Factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 1

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 6.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5.5



CITATIONS
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European and American snuff boxes, 1730-1830
L'arte della ceramica Capodimonte
Le porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1743-1806
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