IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31630 accession number: M.12-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ivory, carved in low relief. Oval with a bust of a lady, extraordinarily well-carved, in profile to dexter. Her hair is tied in a knot at the back, with a single coil resting on her shoulder. Inscribed on the back: 'DOMINA ELIZABETHA EYRE/M.D.C.C.'. title: medallion NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Rt Hon. Lord Chesham; sold Sotheby's, 10 December 1946, Catalogue of Antique Snuffboxes, Miniatures, Ivory Medallions . . . , including the property of the Rt Hon. Lord Chesham . . . , p. 8, lot 73. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31630 PEOPLE ------------------- Chesham, The Rt. Hon. Lord Eyre, Elizabeth TECHNIQUES ---------- ivory, carved in low relief carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 18th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Le Marchand, David DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 3 3/4 dimension: Width units: in value: 3 1/4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Black Atlantic: Power | People | Resistance title: David Le Marchand, 1674-1726: 'An Ingenious Man for Carving Ivory' CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thirty-eighth Annual Report, for the Year 1946 A Whig Artist in Ivory, David Le Marchand, 1674-1726 Important European Sculpture and Works of Art, 5th July 1988 David Le Marchand 1674-1726, An Ingenious Man for Carving Ivory Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance Monumenta Anglicana David Le Marchand - Hugenot Ivory Carver --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_12_1946_1_201310_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 903 pixels width: 766 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_m_12_1946_1_201310_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 589 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_12_1946_1_201310_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 903 pixels width: 766 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_m_12_1946_1_201310_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 295 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_12_1946_2_201301_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 882 pixels width: 734 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_m_12_1946_2_201301_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 601 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_12_1946_2_201301_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 882 pixels width: 734 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_m_12_1946_2_201301_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 300 pixels width: 250 pixels