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Maker: Unknown
Enamel on copper with gilt metal mounts; rectangular; painted with pastoral views of courting couples
Enamel on copper with gilt metal mounts; rectangular with straight sides and hinged slightly domed lid. The box is painted with pastoral scenes in coloured enamels on a white enamelled ground. Depicted on the lid is a 'scene galante' with three pairs of lovers and a begging dog in a wood; inside the lid are two women listening to a shepherd playing the bagpipes; on each side are a pair of lovers, and on the base are a mother and two children. The gilt metal mount round the lid is reeded and has a scrolled thumbpiece. The lower mount has small scrolls extending down each corner of the box. Inside the box both mounts have fluted edges.
History note: Uncertain before testator
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 3.6 cm
Length: 6.7 cm
Width: 5.5 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: Bequeathed (1912-06-18) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
3rd quarter 18th Century
George II
Circa
1750
-
1760
Surface
composed of
enamel
Box
composed of
copper
Accession number: MAR.M.286-1912
Primary reference Number: 156359
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/156359 Accessed: 2023-05-31 18:40:38
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: M.101-1961
Accession Number: M.15-1950
Accession Number: M.42-1929
Accession Number: M.6-1964
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