IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 2841 accession number: M.88 & A-1973 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 13 December 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tortoise shell set with a miniature in watercolour and bodycolour, probably on card, mounted under glass in gilt metal studded with paste diamonds. The circular box has straight sides and a flat pull-off lid. Round the edge and side of the lid and base are gilt metal mounts in two colours of gold. The outer red gold border is set with a row of paste diamonds; the inner yellow gold border is stamped with a pattern of stylised leaves. The circular miniature depicts flowers, including roses, poppies and narcissi, next to a chaffinch on a carved two handled Classical urn, all on a marble slab. object type: tortoise shell with gilt metal mounts studded with four circles of paste diamonds, the lid set with a miniature of flowers by a chaffinch on a carved urn title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Major, the Hon. H.R. Broughton creditline: Major, the Hon. H.R. Broughton Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/2841 SUBJECTS ------------------- urn chaffinch rose poppy narcissi plant urn chaffinch rose poppy narcissi plant CATEGORIES ------ category: miniature (painting) category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1806 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1806 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century, first half# CREATORS -------- maker: Picot, François Eduard maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_88_1973_20_281_29.jpg height: 655 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_88_1973_20_281_29.jpg height: 431 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_88_1973_20_281_29.jpg height: 655 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_88_1973_20_281_29.jpg height: 215 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_88_1973_20_282_29.jpg height: 751 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_88_1973_20_282_29.jpg height: 494 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_88_1973_20_282_29.jpg height: 751 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_88_1973_20_282_29.jpg height: 247 pixels width: 250 pixels