IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166623 accession number: M.16 & A-Y-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 22 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ivory, engraved and painted in magenta, black pink and yellow, with gilt metal hinges. Rectangular, the base with straight sides. The moulded sides of the lid projecting slightly over the base. The two projecting hinges are pinned to a metal scroll inside the box. The upper surface and interior of the lid and the base are engraved in outline in black and painted on a magenta ground. The top of the lid is decorated with a roundel of Cupid at a grindstone, a heart held in his hands against the stone, and his right foot on the pedal. The scroll above the roundel is inscribed 'Je la doucis'. The roundel is surrounded by scrolling foliage, flowers, pendant garlands and a shell in green, pink and yellow. At each corner is a swag of green fruit on a pink stippled ground. The inside of the lid is decorated with a cockerel surrounded by green, pink and yellow scrolling foliage and flowers within a black border beneath which is the inscription 'Mariaval le Jeune a Rouen fecit'. The base is decorated with a pink, green and yellow spray of three flowers in a white border. The box contains 19 long narrow counters decorated on both sides with a floral design on a magenta ground, and six elongated octagonal counters decorated on both sides with a magenta floral border, and numbered in black '5', '10', '20', '30' '40' or '50'. Each counter is drilled with a small hole near the edge. (with M.14 & A-R-1938, M.15 & A-Z-1938 and M.17 & A-X-1938) object type: rectangular, ivory box painted in colours on a magenta ground; the lid inscribed 'Je la doucis' title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: S.E. Kennedy; Christie, Manson & Woods, 18-22 March, 1918, Important collection of objects of art, antiquities, armour and arms, on 22 March, LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166623 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- grindstone cockerel flower grindstone cockerel flower CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes (containers) DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Mariaval, Le Jeune DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 8.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.3 CITATIONS -------- Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 16 December 1982 English and Continental Silver, Portrait Miniatures and Objects of Vertu European Ceramics, Silver and Vertu European Ceramics, Silver and Vertu --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_16_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 670 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_16_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 441 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_16_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 670 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_16_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 220 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_16_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_16_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 486 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_16_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 738 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_16_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 243 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_16_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 712 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_16_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 534 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_16_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 712 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_16_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 267 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_16_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 553 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_16_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 364 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_16_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 553 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_16_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 182 pixels width: 250 pixels