Accession No
1898.66
Description
Rectangular wood and bone box on four raised legs with carved pyramid finials, with a curved sliding lid. Decorated with filigree bone panels with wavy and heart shaped patterns, infilled with red and green paint. The lid is decorated with a cribbage board. The inside is divided into three wooden compartments containing bone playing cards, 2 cribbage pegs, 9-spot dominoes, 3 dice and a spinning top (tee-to-tum).
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge
Period
Post Medieval late 17th century
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]; Morley [vendor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1898.66; MAA: AR 1898.257; 214.25 [Peterborough Museum loan no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone; Wood
Local Term
Measurements
220mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Peterborough Museum: 'Rectangular wood and bone box on four raised legs with carved pyramid finials, with a curved sliding lid. Decorated with filigree bone panels with wavy and heart shaped patterns, infilled with red and green paint. The lid is decorated with a cribbage board. The inside is divided into three wooden compartments containing bone playing cards, 2 cribbage pegs, 9-spot dominoes, 3 dice and a spinning top (tee-to-tum). '
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'An oblong box, shaped like a bed with four posts, with convex sliding cover. The entire box, which contains dice and set of painted bone cards & dominoes, is covered with ornamental plaques of white bone.'
Event Date 1898
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Accession register does not give a Place for this box, although the Annual Report says it is from Cambridge.
Event Date 1898
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased from Jolly £1 in 1898.
Event Date 1898
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Annual Report: 'An oblong box, shaped like a bed, with convex sliding lid, of wood and bone, containing a set of dice, of dominoes and of bone playing-cards.'
Event Date 1899
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum, 30/07/1985 to 18/01/2019, Long term loan, although some of it may have been on display.
Event Date 30/7/1985
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum, 30/07/1985 to 18/01/2019, Long term loan, although some of it may have been on display.
Event Date 30/7/1985
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Other)
Although this box was not identified as being made by French Prisoners-of-War at Norman Cross when it first entered the museum's collection, by 1985 at the latest (when it went on loan to the Peterborough Museum) it was subsequently presumed to be so.
Event Date 18/1/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, 01/05/2019 to 30/04/2019, Norman Cross collection
Event Date 1/5/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Loan (Long Term Gallery Loan)
Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, 16/11/2022 to 19/11/2025, Norman Cross collection
Event Date 16/11/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
FM:282523
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