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A number of similarly decorated boxes by Joachim Albert Fincke survive. Some are in the collections of the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, the Hannover Kestner-Museum and the Ermitage, St. Petersburg.
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A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT BOX AND COVER
Hamburg circa 1720, maker's mark of Joachim Albert Fincke
Heart-shaped, the vertical sides applied with an open-work frieze of scrolls, flowers, foliage and animal masks, the flat cover similarly decorated with applied open-work plaque of scrolls, flowers, foliage, baskets of flowers, female grotesque masks and with waved rims, marked under base - 9 cm (3½ in) wide, 3 cm (1¼ in) high
148 grs.
Hamburg circa 1720, maker's mark of Joachim Albert Fincke
Heart-shaped, the vertical sides applied with an open-work frieze of scrolls, flowers, foliage and animal masks, the flat cover similarly decorated with applied open-work plaque of scrolls, flowers, foliage, baskets of flowers, female grotesque masks and with waved rims, marked under base - 9 cm (3½ in) wide, 3 cm (1¼ in) high
148 grs.