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One of a set of four counter boxes
Maker: Mariaval, Le Jeune
Rectangular, ivory box painted in colours on a green ground; the lid inscribed 'apres les peines les plaisirs'
Ivory, engraved and painted in green, black yellow 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 green ground. The top of the lid is decorated with a roundel of Cupid approaching a thorny bush in the midst of which is a heart aflame. The scroll above the roundel is inscribed 'apres les peines les plaisirs'. 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 dolphin 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 an ivory border. The box contains 19 long narrow counters decorated on both sides with a floral design on a green ground, and five elongated octagonal counters decorated on both sides with a green floral border, and numbered in black '5', '10', '20', '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.16 & A-Y-1938)
History note: S.E. Kennedy; Christie, Manson & Woods, 18-22 March, 1918, Important collection of objects of art, antiquities, armour and arms, on 22 March,
L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937
Height: 2.2 cm
Length: 8.7 cm
Width: 6.4 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: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Early 18th Century
Circa
1720
CE
-
Circa
1730
CE
Mariaval le Jeune was an engraver on ivory active in Rouen and Paris in the early to mid 18th century. He designed the card game Reversino (Reversis) in which the object is to avoid winning tricks. This set of four boxes is probably intended for this game.
This box is constructed differently to the three others in the set, in that the top of the lid is set into a frame rather than being carved from one piece of ivory.
Decoration
composed of
painting
Ivory
Accession number: M.17 & A-X-1938
Primary reference Number: 166625
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: M.15 & A-Z-1938
Accession Number: M.16 & A-Y-1938
Accession Number: M.14 & A-R-1938
Accession Number: M.51-1983
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