Miniature casket engraved with buildings

An image of Metalwork/Miniature Casket. Unknown Maker. Rectangular standing on four ball feet, the hinged cover having a central handle, with a keyhole and key behind it. The top and corners have silver mounts, and there are projecting steel bands round the top and above the bottom of the sides. The brass panels on the top and front are engraved with buildings, those on the ends with scale pattern set with quatrefoils, and the back and base with formal plant and geometrical design. The underside of the lid has a complicated steel lock mechanism held to it by pins. Gilt brass, with steel and silver mounts, and steel mechanism, engraved decoration, height, whole, 3.3 cm, length, whole, 4.8 cm, width, whole, 3.1 cm.

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Metalwork/Miniature Casket. Unknown Maker. Rectangular standing on four ball feet, the hinged cover having a central handle, with a keyhole and key behind it. The top and corners have silver mounts, and there are projecting steel bands round the top and above the bottom of the sides. The brass panels on the top and front are engraved with buildings, those on the ends with scale pattern set with quatrefoils, and the back and base with formal plant and geometrical design. The underside of the lid has a complicated steel lock mechanism held to it by pins. Gilt brass, with steel and silver mounts, and steel mechanism, engraved decoration, height, whole, 3.3 cm, length, whole, 4.8 cm, width, whole, 3.1 cm.

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Accession Number: M.27-1935
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 901 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 185.30kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2014:02:21 12:30:22

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Department Fitz_AA Material Medium Object Type Other Keywords Silver Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd architectural architecture box building casket engraved engraving gilded gilt gilt brass gilt-brass handled hinged key-hole keyhole keys lidded lock locked metalwork mount steel towns townscape

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