IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 166624 accession number: M.15 & A-Z-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 22 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ivory, engraved and painted in yellow, black green and pink, 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 yellow ground. The top of the lid is decorated with a roundel of Cupid asleep on the ground with his bow and quivers lying in front of him. The scroll above the roundel is inscribed 'Le repos me détruit'. 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 bird eating from a flower, surrounded by green, pink and yellow scrolling foliage and flowers within a black border beneath which is the inscription 'Mariaval le Juene a Rouen fecit'. The base is decorated with a pink, green and yellow spray of three flowers in a white border. The box contains 20 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', '20', '30' or '40'. Each counter is drilled with a small hole near the edge. (with M.14 & A-R-1938, M.16 & A-Y-1938 and M.17 & A-X-1938) object type: rectangular, ivory box painted in colours on a yellow ground; the lid inscribed 'Le repos me détruit' 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/166624 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- arrows quiver bird flower arrows quiver bird flower CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes 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: 2.3 dimension: Length units: cm value: 8.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Works of Art and Objects of Vertu 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_15_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 703 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_15_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 463 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_15_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 703 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_15_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 231 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_15_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 681 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_15_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 448 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_15_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 681 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_15_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 224 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_15_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 688 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_15_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 552 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_15_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 688 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_15_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 276 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_15_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_15_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_15_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_15_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels