Counter box: M/P.1 & A-L-1934

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: unmarked
Engraver: De Passe, a member of the family (Style of)

Entities

Counter box
Silver
Objet de vertu
gaming token box

Description

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".

Notes

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.

Legal notes

Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam

Measurements and weight

Height: 1.4 cm
Length: 7.5 cm
Width: 6.0 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

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.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1992-11-23) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dating

Early 17th Century
James I
Circa 1620 CE - 1625 CE

Note

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.