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Description: | ; Date(s): 1760 - 1860; Classification(s): snuff bottles, snuff bottle; Acquisition: bequeathed by Byas, Cecil E., 1938, Cecil E. Byas Bequest [O.32.3 & A-1938]
Description: Chalcedony of dark honey colour with a beige inclusion carved as a hawk perched on a beast. (The design was probably intended as a pun on the characters 'hawk' and 'bear' which are homophones with 'brave' and 'strong'.) | 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: | snuff bottle snuff bottles | 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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