IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77333 accession number: M.70 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 3 October 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gold and enamel; oval with straight sides and hinged almost flat lid. The lid of the box is enamelled with an oval miniature depicting Bellona, the goddess of war, dressed in armour, a helmet and a flowing red cloak; in her right hand she holds a sword, and at her feet sits Cupid. Either side of the miniature and in four rectangles on the sides and in an oval on the recessed base are panels of translucent deep purple enamel over engine turned engraving. Surrounding the panels are borders of white enamel with gold spots, and chased gold with green enamelled leaves and set with small blue opaque enamel beads. With a fitted case (A) covered in red leather. object type: gold and enamel; oval with an miniature of the Goddess Bellona on the lid title: snuff box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's auction 28 June 1934, formerly in the stock of Messrs. Parkes of Vigo Street, London W.1. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77333 PEOPLE ------------------- Bellona Cupid CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: LET? CITATIONS -------- Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe Objects of Vertu --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/M_70A_1961.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_M_70A_1961.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/M_70A_1961.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_M_70A_1961.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_70_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 711 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_70_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 468 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_70_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 711 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_70_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 234 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_70_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 688 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_70_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 453 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_70_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 688 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_70_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 226 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_70_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 699 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_70_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 460 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_70_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 699 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_70_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 230 pixels width: 250 pixels