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cosmetic-box(?); mirror

Object Type: cosmetic-box (?); mirror
Museum number: 1988,0404.1
Description: Box; enamelled; oval; with cover; slightly waisted form with metal mount; interior of cover fitted with damaged mirror; base of box and interior white, sides blue; cover decorated at edge with dots of white enamel on band of blue within gold line; central inscription; may be connected with two disputed speakerships of early 1789.
Production date: 18thC
Production place: Made in: Staffordshire (?); Made in: Warwickshire (historic) (?)
Materials: glass; enamel; gold
Technique: enamelled; painted; gilded
Dimensions: Length: 4.70 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Associated dates : 1789 (?). Associated dates : 1770-1781 (?).
Location: On display (Cml/cp14/dr9)
Associated names: Associated with: William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (?); Associated with: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (?); Associated with: Sir Gilbert Elliot; Associated with: Fletcher Norton, Baron Grantley
Acquisition name: Purchased from: J & J May
Acquisition date: 1988
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1988,0404.1
Conservation: Treatment: 02 Feb 1994