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Silversmith: Unknown
Oval, silver box with tortoise shell lid and base; the top of lid inlaid with engraved silver and mother-of-pearl strapwork and scrolls
Silver with tortoise shell lid and base; the top of lid inlaid with engraved silver and mother of pearl. Oval box with straight sides and projecting moulded edges and a projecting hinge. The slightly domed lid is decorated with a Baroque shell-shaped design which includes interlaced strapwork, scrolls, fish and the heads of two grotesques.
Height: 1.5 cm
Length: 8.2 cm
Width: 6.0 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.
Early 18th Century
1700
CE
-
1730
CE
Lid And Base
composed of
tortoise shell
Inlay
composed of
mother-of-pearl
silver
Side And Mounts
composed of
silver
Decoration
Accession number: RTR.M.19
Primary reference Number: 156404
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/156404 Accessed: 2023-06-06 10:57:03
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Snuff box
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-06 10:57:03|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-156404
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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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