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Maker: Unknown
Shoe-shaped carved wood box with stained flowers and motto 'SOUVENIRE AMITIE' within borders of tacks
Carved wood with brown stained decoration within borders of tacks. Shoe-shaped with an elongated rounded toe. The compartment for snuff in the heel has an upward-curving hinged lid. The front of the shoe and lid are decorated with flowers. Round the back of the shoe is the motto 'SOUVENIRE AMITIE'.
History note: Not known before donor
Given by Mrs M. Chivers
Height: 4.2 cm
Length: 12.3 cm
Width: 2.6 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: Given (1981-03-09) by Chivers, M.
Second half of 18th century
Circa
1850
CE
-
1900
CE
Box
composed of
wood
Decoration
composed of
stain
Decoraiton
composed of
tacks
Tacks
Wood
Accession number: M.2-1981
Primary reference Number: 150731
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 (2023) "Snuff box" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150731 Accessed: 2023-03-20 20:07:50
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University of Cambridge}}
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