Details
Boat-shaped bright-cut engraved with a band of flowers and oval medallion centred with a rosette, the stand on four columnar supports with reeded lower band, the rim chased with Vitruvian scroll band and applied with suspended laurel garlands below, the hinged stepped cover with bright-cut engraved foliate bands and reeded and foliate ring finial, the front with enclosed keyhole, with key, engraved on cover and side with a crest, marked under base, on stand and in cover
814 in. (21 cm.) long
gross weight 26oz. (818 gr.)
The crest is that of Walpole
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 2 November 1989, lot 356.
The Estate of Terence J. Fox; Christie's, New York, 17 October 1996, lot 288.
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