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Maker: Unknown
Copper, engraved, champlevé, enamelled, and gilded, with applied repoussé silver plaques, the box interior of wood (modern, date uncertain). Rectangular with a lid of truncated pyramidal form. The sides are overlaid with thin D-shaped plates of silver embossed with figures of angels; the spandrels have embossed vine scrolls in gold. Along the top of the lid there is a strip of silver embossed with palmettes, the rest is covered with champlevé enamel.
History note: Holingworth Magniac, Colworth, Bedfordshire; sold Christie’s, 2, 4-8 and 11-15 July 1892, Catalogue of the renowned collection of works of art chiefly formed by the late Hollingworth Magniac Esq. (known as the Colworth Collection), 5th Day, 7 July, pp. 126-7, lot 496, sold for £168.0.0 to Frank McClean, Tonbridge Wells.
Frank McClean Bequest
Depth: 5.8 cm
Height: 5.7 cm
Width: 11 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
13th Century, Early
Circa
1170
-
1200
Interior
composed of
wood
Decoration
composed of
enamel
gold
Plaques
composed of
copper
silver
Deocration
Accession number: M.27-1904
Primary reference Number: 139835
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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