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Maker: Unknown
Wide octagonal, tortoise shell box with silver mounts and thread piqué work vignette, initials and motto "TEMPUS FUGIT"
Tortoise shell with silver mounts and inlaid thread piqué work. Wide octagonal with straight sides and an almost flat lid. The moulded sides of the lid and the projecting hinge are of silver. The top of the lid is decorated a vignette of winged Mercury in front of a church, houses and a tree, above is the motto 'TEMPUS FUGIT'. The base of the box is decorated with the initals 'JS' in monogram within a border of scallop shells and scrolls.
History note: Not known before testator
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 1.8 cm
Length: 8.7 cm
Width: 6.7 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960-12-13) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Early 18th Century
1700
CE
-
1740
CE
The silver does not bear a maker's mark
Box
composed of
tortoise shell
Inlay
composed of
silver
Mounts
composed of
silver
Silver Piqué
Accession number: M.84-1961
Primary reference Number: 150691
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Snuff box" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150691 Accessed: 2022-09-28 20:23:24
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-09-28 20:23:24|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: M.101-1961
Accession Number: M.15-1950
Accession Number: M.42-1929
Accession Number: M.6-1964
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