IDENTIFIERS
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id:	150683
accession number:	M.73-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 20 September 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Tortoise shell and gold; the shaped rectangular gold box has a hinged lid.  The lid and base are set with tortoise shell plaques within moulded gold borders.  The tortoise shell lid is decorated with a gold piqué work Chinoiserie vignette of a man in Oriental dress with two dwarves, one playing a horn and the other with an exotic bird, on a staircase and surrounded by exotic trees and flowers.  The base is similarly decorated with a smaller vignette of hoho bird and tree.
object type: tortoise shell and gold;  shaped rectangular with a gold piqué work Chinoiserie vignette
title:	snuff box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought at The Hague in July 1902


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
collection:	Louis C. G. Clarke
creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150683

PEOPLE
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man
dwarf

SUBJECTS
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bird
hoho bird
tree
flower
bird
hoho bird
tree
flower



CATEGORIES
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category: boxes

DATING
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creation date:	1717 - 1722
creation date earliest:	1717
creation date latest:	1722
culture:	18th Century, Early#
culture:	Louis XIV or Louis XV

CREATORS
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maker: George

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 1.4

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 8.3

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 6.4



CITATIONS
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The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe
Fine Silver and Vertu
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