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1.
[A continental papier-mâché snuff box] [realia].

Published / Created:
[18th century?]
Call Number:
LWL Min. 118 Object Room in Box 1b
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:
Snuff-box
Description:
Papier-mâché snuff box with a cylindrical body and a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Housed with a 20th-century sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer).
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A continental papier-mâché snuff box] [realia].

2.
[Cabinet cup and saucer, decorated with birds perched in exotic landscapes] [realia].

Creator:
Aloncle, François-Joseph, active 1758-1781, artist
Published / Created:
[not before 1756]
Call Number:
LWL Object 27 On display in the Long Hall
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:
Cup and saucer
Description:
A soft-paste porcelain Sèvres cup and saucer, painted in enamel with flower motifs and panels of exotic birds by François-Joseph Aloncle (fl. 1758-81), with gilding.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Cabinet cup and saucer, decorated with birds perched in exotic landscapes] [realia].

3.
[Death of Abel (plate)] [realia].

Creator:
Grue, Carlo Antonio, 1655-1723, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1690 and 1720?]
Call Number:
LWL Object 29 On display in the Long Hall
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:
Plate painted with the sacrifices of Cain and Abel
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Death of Abel (plate)] [realia].

4.
[Ewer and basin with figures in a landscape] [realia].

Published / Created:
[between 1760 and 1790?]
Call Number:
LWL Object 33 On display in the Long Hall
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:
Chinese export porcelain Mandarin pattern ewer and basin
Description:
A hard-paste porcelain ewer and basin, painted with figures in a landscape, of the style made specifically for the European market.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Ewer and basin with figures in a landscape] [realia].

5.
[King-fisher and ducks of Battersea enamel] [art original].

Creator:
Janssen, Stephen Theodore, 1747-1777
Published / Created:
[18th century]
Call Number:
LWL Min. 128 On view in the Long Hall
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Rectangular enameled plaque with a colored image showing a king-fisher on the left, two ducks on the right near a pond, and a building between them in the distance, similar to one belonging to Horace Walpole.
Subject (Geographic):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [King-fisher and ducks of Battersea enamel] [art original].

6.
[Madame du Deffand's snuff box with portrait of Tonton] [realia]

Creator:
Roucel, Louis, -1787
Published / Created:
[approximately 1777]
Call Number:
LWL Object 31 On display in Reception Area
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:
Louis XV gold snuff box
Description:
A snuff box, silver gilt (vermeil) over brass, with a portrait in wax of Madame du Deffand's dog Tonton. She bequeathed the box to Horace Walpole in 1780. It was displayed in the Tribune (Cabinet) in Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Madame du Deffand's snuff box with portrait of Tonton] [realia]

7.
[Sacrifice of Isaac (plate)] [realia].

Creator:
Grue, Carlo Antonio, 1655-1723, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1690 and 1720?]
Call Number:
LWL Object 28 On display in the Long Hall
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:
Plate painted with a scene with Abraham and Isaac
Description:
Hand-painted tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) palte, painted and gilt. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Sacrifice of Isaac (plate)] [realia].

8.
[Three portrait medallions and six counters] [realia].

Creator:
Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver
Published / Created:
[circa 1638] and [mid-17th century]
Call Number:
LWL Object 24 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
Various jettons and counters of James I., his Queen; Charles I., his Queen; various on his Marriage, Birth of the Prince, and on his Death. Stored in an 18th-century sharkskin-covered box. Formerly located in the Tribune [Cabinet] of Strawberry Hill
Alternative Title:
Jettons and counters
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Three portrait medallions and six counters] [realia].

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