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Goldsmith: Fabergé, Carl (Workshop of)
Gold rectangular case of roughened texture set with two diamonds and a ruby
Gold, cast, chased, and set with diamonds and rubies. Rectangular with straight sides and almost flat lid with flush hinge and projecting thumbpiece. The surface is chased with a roughened 'samorodok' (nugget-like) texture. Set in the top right corner of the lid is a diamond with two incised lines ratiating out to another diamond and a pear-shaped ruby. The projecting thumbpiece is set with six pavé set rectangular rubies.
Given by Captain S.W. Sykes
Height: 1.3 cm
Length: 10.3 cm
Width: 7.5 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 (1962-08-27) by Sykes, Stanley William
First quarter of 20th century
Circa
1908
CE
-
1917
CE
Decoration
composed of
diamond
ruby
Case
composed of
gold
Inscription present: '56' on the right of a head facing right in an oval cartouche
Inscription present: a double headed eagle?
Inscription present: a head? in a circular cartouche
Accession number: M.6-1962
Primary reference Number: 150753
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) "Cigarette case" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/150753 Accessed: 2023-06-10 23:31:34
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: M.11 & A-1981
Accession Number: M.2-1991
Accession Number: O.3-2017
Accession Number: M.2A-1956
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