IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77333
accession number:	M.70 & A-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 3 October 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Gold and enamel; oval with straight sides and hinged almost flat lid.  The lid of the box is enamelled with an oval miniature depicting Bellona, the goddess of war, dressed in armour, a helmet and a flowing red cloak; in her right hand she holds a sword, and at her feet sits Cupid.  Either side of the miniature and in four rectangles on the sides and in an oval on the recessed base are panels of translucent deep purple enamel over engine turned engraving.  Surrounding the panels are borders of white enamel with gold spots, and chased gold with green enamelled leaves and set with small blue opaque enamel beads. With a fitted case (A) covered in red leather.
object type: gold and enamel; oval with an miniature of the Goddess Bellona on the lid
title:	snuff box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's auction 28 June 1934, formerly in the stock of Messrs. Parkes of Vigo Street, London W.1.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Louis C. G. Clarke
creditline: Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77333

PEOPLE
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Bellona
Cupid




CATEGORIES
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category: boxes

DATING
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creation date:	1790 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: LET?


CITATIONS
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Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe
Objects of Vertu
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