IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81855 accession number: M.22 & A-1988 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 10 May 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Wood and silver; laminated in cream, brown and greyish-blue wood and three narrow sheets of silver, so two sides of the interior of the box are lined in silver, and a line of silver runs through the centre of the lid and protrudes into the interior to hold the lid in place. Approximately square in plan, but intended to be seen as a lozenge; the base flat, the top domed and slightly ridged on the north-south axis; the rectangular cover is also ridged in the opposite direction, so that its shallow triangular ends show at the sides. The north and south points are striped horizontally in brown and cream and the east and west points are striped vertically in greyish-blue and cream. Half of the cover is striped horizontally in brown and cream and half vertically in greyish-blue and cream. Narrow vertical strips of silver separate the brown/cream and greyish-blue/cream areas of the box, and the two striped areas of the lid. object type: wood and silver; lozenge-shaped in plan, laminated wood in stripes of brown and cream and greyish-blue and cream title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Given by Edward Lucie-Smith to the Contemporary Art Society, 1987; presented to The Fitzwilliam Museum, 5 December 1988 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Contemporary Art Society STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81855 CATEGORIES ------ category: woodwork category: boxes category: objets de vertu DATING ------ creation date: 1982 - 1983 creation date earliest: 1982 creation date latest: 1983 culture: 20th Century, Late culture: Elizabeth II CREATORS -------- maker: Chatwin, Peter