IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 150691 accession number: M.84-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 6 January 2014 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: wide octagonal, tortoise shell box with silver mounts and thread piqué work vignette, initials and motto "TEMPUS FUGIT" 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/150691 PEOPLE ------------------- Mercury SUBJECTS ------------------- church house church house CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 8.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.7 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_84_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 708 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_84_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 466 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_84_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 708 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_84_1961_20_281_29.jpg height: 233 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_84_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 632 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_84_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 416 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_84_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 632 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_84_1961_20_282_29.jpg height: 208 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_84_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 579 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_84_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 381 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_84_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 579 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_84_1961_20_283_29.jpg height: 190 pixels width: 249 pixels