box; plaque

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Object Type: box; plaque
Museum number: 1958,0502.1
Description: Box; silver; enamelled oval copper plaque set in the lid; scene with two putti at a forge in a landscape; coloured, flat burnished gold tree trunk, basket and forge, putti modelled in relief and covered in burnished gold; signature.
Producer name
Production date: 1730-1740
Production place: Decorated in: Meissen (enamelled); Decorated in: Dresden (city) (enamelled)
Materials: silver; enamel; copper; gold
Technique: enamelled; burnished; hand-modelled; relief
Dimensions: Height: 1.20 centimetres; Length: 6.20 centimetres; Width: 4.40 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For a discussion of applied gold motifs on enamel and porcelain, see Holzhausen 1930.
Bibliographic references: Tait 1962b / Herold and Hunger (39-41); Dawson 1990 / Gold foil decoration on enamel, glass and porcelain: a new look (342)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: forge/foundry; cherub/cupid
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1958
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1958,0502.1
Conservation: Treatment: 27 Jan 1994; Treatment: 01 Aug 2016; Treatment: 01 Aug 2016

Free entry