Details
Ovale à deux compartiments, le couvercle avec charnière centrale ciselée de trophées champêtres figurant des outils de jardin et des fleurs sur fond sablé, encadrés d'une frise de motifs géométriques, sur le fond deux trophées de musique, sur les côtés quatre panneaux centrés d'un feston fleuri sur fond sablé, séparés par un feston fleuri suspendu a une coquille, poinçons dans les couvercles et les fonds: illisibles
L.: 8,6 cm. (338 in.)
193 gr. (6 oz. 4 dwt.)
Provenance
Vente Sotheby's, Londres, 7 juillet 2005, lot 30.
FURTHER DETAILS
A GERMAN VARI-COLOUR GOLD DOUBLE-OPENING SNUFF-BOX
PROBABLY HANAU, CIRCA 1765
Oval, the lids and base chased with vari-colour gold trophies of Music and Harvest, the sides with flower garlands interspersed with festoon suspended from shells, on sable ground, traces of marks in cover and base.
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