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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): 1780 - 1800; Classification(s): boxes, snuff box, carving, The horn was carved, heated and pressed to form the parts of the box, which were glued together. The gold piqué work was inlaid into the lid. The hinge, thumbpiece and mount were engraved with bright cut decoration and pinned or glued to the box. The miniature was set under glass.; Acquisition: given by Nias, Caroline, Miss, 1929-12-04, Given by Miss Caroline Nias in memory of her mother Lady Nias, to whose father John Laing the object belonged [M.42-1929]
Description: navette-shaped horn box with gold piqué work; the lid set with a miniature of a seated girl holding a basket of roses | 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=last quarter of 18th century; start=1780; end=1800 | 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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