Maker: Unknown
Gold box set with panels of brown aventurine feldspar
Gold, aventurine feldspar and enamel; rectangular with cut corners and straight sides and hinged flat lid. The gold cagework box is set with ten panels (eight round the sides and one in the lid and base) of brown aventurine flecked with gold. Round the lid, the recessed base and at the top and bottom of the sides the gold mounts are engraved with a guilloche pattern border enamelled in green with white dots. The side mounts are embossed and chased to resemble pillasters.
History note: Sotheby's auction 28 June 1934, formerly in the stock of Messrs. Parkes of Vigo Street, London W.1.
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest
Height: 2.8 cm
Length: 7.8 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960-12-13) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Late
1782
-
1783
Panel
composed of
aventurine glass
Box
composed of
gold
Accession number: M.71-1961
Primary reference Number: 150681
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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