Lot 24
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THE COLLECTION OF ADOLPHUS ANDREWS, JR. AND EMILY TAYLOR ANDREWS
A GERMAN DIAMOND, RUBY, AND EMERALD-SET GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF BOX

PROBABLY DRESDEN, CIRCA 1770

    Price Realised USD 6,300
    Estimate
    USD 6,000 - USD 9,000
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    A GERMAN DIAMOND, RUBY, AND EMERALD-SET GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF BOX

    PROBABLY DRESDEN, CIRCA 1770

    Price Realised USD 6,300
    Price Realised USD 6,300
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    The mottled brown hardstone carved as a horse's head set with a diamond eye and teeth, the banded gold mounts with thumbpiece set with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, marked on cover and flange with Dutch tax mark 1893-1953, the flange further marked twice with French import mark post 1893
    23⁄4 in. (7 cm.) high
    Provenance
    Baron de Redé and Baron Guy de Rothschild, vente de meubles et objets d'art de l'Hôtel Lambert et du Château de Ferrières; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 May 1975, lot 23.
    Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 27 May 2004, lot 122.
    Acquired from S. J. Phillips Ltd., London, 2004.
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