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A RUSSIAN JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
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A RUSSIAN JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY ANDREAS FERDINAND SPIEGEL (1797-1862), MARKED, ST PETERSBURG, 1844, ASSAY MASTER DMITRY ILYICH TVERSKOY 1837-1850, STRUCK WITH THE 72 ZOLOTNIKI (18-CARAT GOLD) MARK, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO FRENCH POST-1893 IMPORT MARKS FOR GOLD

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A RUSSIAN JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Andreas Ferdinand Spiegel (1797-1862), marked, St Petersburg, 1844, assay master Dmitry Ilyich Tverskoy 1837-1850, struck with the 72 zolotniki (18-carat gold) mark, later struck with two French post-1893 import marks for gold
Ingot-shaped box, the cover, sides and base enamelled in translucent green over a guilloché ground decorated with flowersprays surrounded by strapwork, flowerheads and scrolls, the raised silver-mounted thumbpiece studded with diamonds, the inside of the lid later engraved in cyrillic and with date 1875
3 7/16 in. (87 mm.) wide
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Lot Essay

Spiegel became a master in St Petersburg about 1830, and among his apprentices is Gustav Fabergé. A. von Solodkoff (Russian Gold and Silverwork 17th to 19th Century, Fribourg/New York, 1981, p. 219) notes that Spiegel 'made gold boxes with chasing as well as with semi-precious stone mosaics'. For further information, see L. Bäcksbacka, St. Petersburgs Juvelerare, Guld- och Silversmeder 1714-1870, Helsinki, 1951, p. 56.

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