unmarked
(Maker)
Style of
De Passe, a member of the family
(Engraver)
Silver; cylindrical box with 11 counters
Silver, pierced, engraved and die stamped. The cylindrical case with pierced sides engraved with dogs and reeds. The pull-off lid and base set with die-stamped and/or engraved counter-size portrait medallions of James I surrounded by the inscription "GIVE THY JUDGEMENTS O GOD UNTO THE KING", the reverse with a portrait of Prince Charles, later Charles I surrounded by the inscription "AND THY RIGHTEOUSNESSE UNTO THE KING'S SON". The box contains 11 counters of a later date, each crudely engraved with a portrait and, on the reverse, a coat-of-arms or symbol and/or name or initials, including "BUCKINGHAM", "WREN" "RUBEN" AND "J.R".
History note: Glendinning's London, 4th Nov 1992, The Collection of Jacobite and Anti-Jacobite Medals and Stuart Touchpieces, formed by Noel Woolf, p.15, lot 107.
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam
Height: 1.4 cm
Length: 7.5 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.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1992-11-23)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Early 17th Century
James I
Circa
1620
CE
-
1625
CE
The box and counters are unmarked. The counters were engraved by a different hand and are probably later than the counter-size portrait medallions set in the lid and base of the box.
Box composed of silver Counters composed of silver Lid And Base
Accession number: M/P.1 & A-L-1934
Primary reference Number: 166557
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Counter box"
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