IDENTIFIERS
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id:	150691
accession number:	M.84-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 29 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: not known before testator


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/150691

PEOPLE
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Mercury

SUBJECTS
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church
house
church
house



CATEGORIES
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category: boxes

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1740
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1740
culture:	18th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 1.8

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 8.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 6.7



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