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Description: | Artist: Unknown, box maker; Date(s): after 1707 - 1730; Classification(s): boxes, snuff box, carving, The tortoiseshell box and its lid were carved from a turtle shell. The pieces were then heated and pressed to form the parts of a box, which were then glued together. The silver plaques were stamped, embossed and chased or engraved, and mounted on the box using silver pins.; Acquisition: given by Fairfax Murray, C, 1917-03-12, Given by C. Fairfax Murray, Esq. [M.12 & A-1917]
Description: oval tortoiseshell box with silver plaques of the Boscobel Oak, Charles I and Queen Anne | 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: | Unknown boxes snuff box | Temporal: | name=early 18th Century; start=1707; end=1730 | 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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