IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 45841 accession number: MAR.M.292-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Gold, diamonds and portrait miniature. Hinged bracelet with flange and socket fastening. Repoussé decoration of wavy line with vertical foliate panels with stylised rose at the centre. At the centre of the bracelet, with scrolled frame set with four faceted diamonds in 'cut-down' setting, a miniature portrait of Mrs Marlay on ivory, perhaps by John Wright (c. 1760-1820). On the back of the centre panel is inscribed: AN OFFERING OF GRATITUDE FOR UNPRECEDENTED KINDNESS surrounding a plinth with a wreath and a fire on top. title: bracelet NOTES ----- type: history note value: Catherine Louisa Augusta Marlay was the daughter of James Tisdall, Esq. of Bawn, Co. Louth, Ireland and of his wife Catherine Maria, afterwards Countess of Charville. She married Lt. Col. George Marlay of Belvedere, Co. Westmeath and of Bawn, Co. Louth. She was the mother of C.B. Marlay, the testator. 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: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/45841 PEOPLE ------------------- Marlay, Mrs SUBJECTS ------------------- plinth wreath fire rose plinth wreath fire rose CATEGORIES ------ category: jewellery category: miniature (painting) DATING ------ creation date: 1827 - 1827 creation date earliest: 1827 creation date latest: 1827 culture: 19th Century culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Wright, John (c. 1745-1820) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 54.0 dimension: Width units: mm value: 78.0 CITATIONS -------- Jewellery gallery summary catalogue Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ---