Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
unmarked
Engraver:
De Passe, a member of the family
(Style of)
Entities
Categories
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
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1992-11-23)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dating
17th Century, Early#
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.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Box
composed of
silver
Counters
composed of
silver
Lid And Base
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: M/P.1 & A-L-1934
Primary reference Number: 166557
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 4 October 2012
Last processed: Thursday 3 August 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
