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Gilt metal set with a miniature in enamel on copper depicting a female warrior and two cherubs
Gilt metal set with a miniature in enamel on copper; the rectangular box with flat hinge and cusped thumbpiece is chased all over with a basket-work pattern. The lid is set with a domed miniature depicting on the top a female warrior or goddess in a plumed helmet, holding a spear, with a cherub above her right shoulder and beneath her left arm. The reverse, on the inside of the lid, depicts a rural landscape with two Classically dressed figures standing between a partially ruined Classical temple and a river, in the background are further figures, a castle and mountains.
Height: 3.0 cm
Length: 7.0 cm
Width: 5.8 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.
Late 18th-early 19th century
1770
CE
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1820
CE
Miniature composed of enamel copper Surface composed of gold
Accession number: RTR.M.6
Primary reference Number: 156374
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 (2022)
"Snuff box"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156374 Accessed: 2022-07-03 06:05:53
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