IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31713 accession number: M.14 & A-R-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 January 2025 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 rabbit (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; decorated on the lid with a circular emblem of a dog leading a blindfolded Cupid, with above, a scroll inscribed 'La fidelité me conduit' title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sydney Ernest Kennedy (1855-1933); Christie, Manson & Woods, 18-22 March, 1918, Catalogue of the important collection of objects of art, antiquities, armour and arms formed by S.E. Kennedy Who is giving up his residence 24 Upper Brook St WI, 5th day, on 22 March, lot ; Leonard D. Cunliffe (1878-1937) 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 ------------------- Kennedy, Sydney Ernest (1855-1933) Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- card games dog rabbit tulip flower dog rabbit tulip flower CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes category: objets de vertu DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, second quarter 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 -------- Recueil d’emblêmes, devises, medailles, et figures hieroglyphiques 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