IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206981 accession number: MAR.C.46-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 19 November 2015 updated: Wednesday 19 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain lid of a snuffbox. Moulded in low relief with shells on the top, decorated with enamel colours of pale pink, flesh pink, green, grey, black, red, purple, and a minute quality of blue. Of rounded oval outline with one straight side, very slightly convex. The top is painted naturalistically with shells and coral. On the underside is a half length portrait of a lady facing front, head turned slightly to her right. She wears flowers in her hair, an earring, a low-necked bodice with lace frill, a black cloak with a pale purple lining and has a red drape on her left arm which is concealed by it title: lid LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: Charles Brinsley Marlay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206981 TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- enamelling TECHNIQUES ---------- bas-relief CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Capodimonte Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1 dimension: Length units: cm value: 6.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.5 CITATIONS -------- European and American snuff boxes, 1730-1830 L'arte della ceramica Capodimonte Le porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1743-1806 ---