IDENTIFIERS
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id:	150725
accession number:	M.1-1938

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 6 January 2014

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Silver chased and set with a carved bloodstone and a mother-of-pearl plaque.  Oval with a flat back, slightly convex sides and a recessed hinge.  The almost flat lid is chased with four panels each containing animals from Aesop's fables, including a fox, raven, dog, cockerel and chicken.  In the centre is an oval bloodstone intaglio depicting the family of the Emperor Darius before Alexander and Hephaestion.  The sides are chased with four panels containing a fox, a rabbit, houses and birds.  The base is set with a large oval mother-of-pearl plaque.
object type: oval silver box chased with animals from Aesop's fables and set with a carved bloodstone and a mother-of-pearl plaque
title:	snuff box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: formerly the property of Dr F.H.H. Guillemard (1852-1933)


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
creditline: Given by A.F. Schofield

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150725

PEOPLE
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Alexander
Darius

SUBJECTS
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Fox
dog
raven
cockerel
bird
Fox
dog
raven
cockerel
bird



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


CITATIONS
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Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch
Aesop's Fables
Fables Choisies
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