IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76913
accession number:	EC.23-1938

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with gilt-metal mounts and cover engraved with foliage and a stylized floral spray
title:	snuff box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before donor


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
creditline: Cecil E. Byas Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76913


SUBJECTS
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head
head



CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1830 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1830
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5



CITATIONS
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European Ceramics and Glass including the Property of a Collector
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