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A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED LAPIS LAZULI ROCK CRYSTAL SCENT BOTTLE

FRANCE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

    Price Realised GBP 6,000
    Estimate
    GBP 5,000 - GBP 7,000
    A JEWELLED GOLD-MOUNTED LAPIS LAZULI ROCK CRYSTAL SCENT BOTTLE

    FRANCE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

    Price Realised GBP 6,000
    Price Realised GBP 6,000
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    The bulbous carved rock crystal body with gold openwork rim, surmounted by a lapis lazuli and gold-mounted rose-cut diamond collar, with part of the label glued to the body 'Appartenait à S. M. l'Empereur de Russie Alexandre II', with a hinged gold-mounted lapis lazuli top, with a detachable gold stopper inside, marked on mounts; in a fitted Hammer Galleries wooden case
    21⁄8 in. (5.5 cm.) high
    Provenance
    Souvenirs, Objets d'Art, Bijoux du Tsar Alexandre II; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 June 1931, lot 43, illustrated p.12.
    With Hammer Galleries, New York.
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