IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 150685 accession number: M.75-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 1 March 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tortoise shell; the lid with silver mounts and inlaid with engraved silver piqué work. Shell-shaped with straight sides. The slightly domed lid has stepped silver mounts, two projecting hinges and an arched thumbpiece. The top is decorated to resemble a shell with twelve ribs dividing the surface into thirteen panels. These contain stylised pendant flowers and, in the centre, a naked woman with a cherub on either side. On the base is an impressed plant shape, which would originally have contained a silver piqué ornament. object type: shell-shaped tortoise shell box, the lid with silver mounts and engraved piqué work strapwork and figures in a shell shape title: snuff box NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known before testator 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: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150685 PEOPLE ------------------- woman cherub SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1710 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1710 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, Early-Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.9 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment European and American snuff boxes, 1730-1830 Piqué: A Beautiful Minor Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/M_75_1961_1_201406_jas244_mas.jpg height: 774 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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