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Snuff box or Bonbonnière in the shape of a Woman's Head
Factory:
Unknown
Mount maker:
Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with gilt-metal mounts and cover engraved with foliage and a stylized floral spray
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted overglaze in flesh-pink, pale mauve, a little red and blue, grey and black enamels, and mounted in gilt-metal with engraved decoration. The box is in the form of the front of the head of a masked lady wearing her grey hair (or wig) in rows of curles at the sides with a curled over peak in the centre bedecked with pale mauve and blue ribbons. Her cheeks and chin are flesh pin, and her mouth pale red. The gilt-metal mount is decorated with engraved foliage, and the hinged cover with a stylized floral spray within a border of scollops with feather edging. On the mount above the hinge there is a suspension loop.
History note: Unknown before donor
Cecil E. Byas Bequest
Height: 7.1 cm
Width: 5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
19th Century
1830
-
1900
Possibly French, certainly Continental Europe.
Cover
composed of
copper alloy
( probably)
gold
Mount
composed of
copper alloy
( probably)
gold
Front
composed of
hard-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Accession number: EC.23-1938
Primary reference Number: 76913
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Snuff box or Bonbonnière in the shape of a Woman's Head" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76913 Accessed: 2024-12-18 21:50:06
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