IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 293238 accession number: M.3E-2021 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 22 June 2021 updated: Thursday 27 March 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Carved ivory, a satirical low-relief portrait-bust plaquette of 'Louvois', one of a group plaquettes of Louis XIV of France, James II of England and various French Catholic clergy, based on engravings published in 'Les heros de la Ligue' (Amsterdam, 1691). Each ivory is currently mounted separately, in a small frame. object type: Carved ivory title: carving NOTES ----- type: history note value: The group of ivories was originally owned by the donors' maternal great-grandmother, Mrs Frances Louisa Dickson (née Maunsell; 1877-1967), who was the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Honorary Keeper of Ceramics (in succession to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher) from 1929 until 1962. During her time in office, Mrs Dickson gave generously to the Museum: mainly large groups of English glass and English porcelain (particularly figures) but also English enamels, and, significantly in the present context, a pair of signed ivory portrait medallions by the great Huguenot ivory carver, David Le Marchand (M.5-1945 and M.6-1945). According to handwritten notes by Mrs Dickson, she acquired these ivories (at an unknown date) from Mrs Emily Nevill Jackson, a collector and connoisseur, best known for her work on silhouettes; and ‘They were discovered in a sealed iron case under the debris of an outhouse near a farm in Suffolk.’ LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by James and Andrew Lindesay in memory of their parents, Edward Dickson Lindesay and Mary Elizabeth Lindesay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/293238 PEOPLE ------------------- Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs TECHNIQUES ---------- carved CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1691 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1691 creation date latest: 1880 CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown