IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31713 accession number: M.14 & A-R-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ivory, engraved and painted in black, green, 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 natural ground. The top of the lid is decorated with a roundel of Cupid, blindfolded, carrying in his right hand a bow, and led by a dog on a lead. The scroll above the roundel is inscribed 'La fidelité me conduit'. 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 the lid is decorated with a black hare (or cat-like creature?) 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 and green tulip and two other flowers in a yellow border. The box contains 13 long narrow counters painted on both sides with a floral design in yellow, green and pink, and five elongated octagonal counters painted on both sides with a green and yellow floral border on a pink stipped ground, numbered in black '5', '10', '30' '40' or '50'. (with M.15 & A-Z-1938, M.16 & A-Y-1938 and M.17 & A-X-1938) object type: rectangular, ivory box painted in colours on a natural ivory ground; the lid inscribed 'La fidelité me conduit' 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/31713 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- dog hare tulip flower dog hare tulip 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: 2.6 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/aa20/M_14_1938.jpg height: 597 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_14_1938.jpg height: 393 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_14_1938.jpg height: 597 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_14_1938.jpg height: 196 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_14_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 636 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_14_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 418 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_14_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 636 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_14_1938_20_281_29.jpg height: 209 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_14_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_14_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 438 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_14_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_14_1938_20_282_29.jpg height: 219 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_14_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 715 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_14_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 470 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_14_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 715 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_14_1938_20_283_29.jpg height: 235 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_14_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 522 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_14_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 343 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_14_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 522 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_14_1938_20_284_29.jpg height: 172 pixels width: 250 pixels