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Description: | Artist: Picot, Fran?ois Eduard, miniaturist - French artist, 1786-1868; Date(s): 1806 - 1850; Classification(s): miniature (painting), box, The shell of a turtle (known as tortoise shell) was carved, heated and pressed to form the parts of a box, which were then glued together. The miniature was painted on card and set under glass with a gilt metal and diamond paste mount.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Broughton, Major the Hon. H.R., 1973-04-06, Major, the Hon. H.R. Broughton Bequest [M.88 & A-1973]
Description: tortoise shell with gilt metal mounts studded with four circles of paste diamonds, the lid set with a miniature of flowers by a chaffinch on a carved urn | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Picot, Fran?ois Eduard miniature (painting) box | Temporal: | name=first half of the 19th century; start=1806; end=1850 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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