Details
Rectangulaire légèrement cintrée, le corps et le couvercle en cristal de roche taillé de fleurs et larges feuilles, le centre des fleurs du couvercle serti de rubis, les montures en or ciselé de filets ondulants, le bord frontal appliqué d’une branches agrémentée de larges fleurs en or de quatre couleurs, l’appuie-pouce en forme de rose sertie d’un rubis entre deux branches fleuries en or de quatre couleurs, poinçons: garantie de l’or après 1838; dans un écrin postérieur en cuir bordeaux estampillé WARTSKI
L.: 5,5 cm. (214 in.)
Poids brut: 92 gr. (2 oz. 1 dwt.)
Provenance
Vente Christie's, Londres, 18 décembre 1997, lot 6.
FURTHER DETAILS
A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED ROCK-CRYSTAL SNUFF-BOX
PROBABLY GERMAN, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY
Rectangular with bombé sides carved with flowers and scrolls, the similarly carved cover set with ruby flowerheads, the waved gold borders with chased vari-colour gold flowers set with rose diamonds and rubies, in later fitted case stamped WARTSKI, later French warranty mark in use after 1838
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