IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77264 accession number: M.2 & A-1977 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 October 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: gold, enamel, diamonds and opals; oval with straight sides, the lid with projecting hinge. The centre of the lid is enamelled in a translucent royal blue over radiating lines of engine turned engraving. Inlaid into the enamel is a hexagonal pattern of yellow gold trefoils and red gold dots. In the centre of each hexagon is set a small diamond. Outside the blue enamelled plaque is a chased gold border comprising a band of white enamelled dots and a band of green enamelled leaves. Set on the leaves are twelve small diamonds; a pair at the front, back and each side, and one between. The recessed base is decorated similarly to the lid, but instead of diamonds in the central panel each hexagon contains a green enamelled quatrefoil, and instead of diamonds on the border of leaves are pairs (one large and one small) of opals (or beads of opalescent glass) and small saphire (or blue enamel) quatrefoils. The sides have four similar blue enamelled panels between borders and pillars of leaves, small opals and blue quatrefoils. With original fitted case (A). (Eight small opals or beads of opalescent glass are missing.) object type: gold, enamel, diamonds and opals; oval box with straight sides; the lid enamelled in dark blue and studded with diamonds within a gold and enamelled border title: snuff box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Given by Mr. Henry Hope to the mother of H. Ph. Hope in 1791(reputedly) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs. Irene Law, 1977 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77264 CATEGORIES ------ category: boxes DATING ------ creation date: 1782 - 1789 creation date earliest: 1782 creation date latest: 1789 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Blerzy, Joseph-Etienne DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.3 dimension: Length units: cm value: 7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5 CITATIONS -------- Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_281_29.jpg height: 610 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_281_29.jpg height: 401 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_281_29.jpg height: 610 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_281_29.jpg height: 201 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_282_29.jpg height: 663 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_282_29.jpg height: 436 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_282_29.jpg height: 663 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_282_29.jpg height: 218 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_283_29.jpg height: 594 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_283_29.jpg height: 391 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_283_29.jpg height: 594 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_283_29.jpg height: 195 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_284_29.jpg height: 715 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/mid_M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_284_29.jpg height: 470 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_284_29.jpg height: 715 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa24/preview_M_2_20_26_20A_1977_20_284_29.jpg height: 235 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/M_2A_1977.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_M_2A_1977.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/M_2A_1977.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_M_2A_1977.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels