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DRESDEN, CIRCA 1760
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A SAXON GOLD-MOUNTED AND JEWELLED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
Dresden, circa 1760
Crystalline quartz box carved in the shape of a reclining ram, with ruby-set eyes, corded gold horns, the hinged reeded gold mounts with ruby-set foliate gold thumbpiece
2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) wide
Dresden, circa 1760
Crystalline quartz box carved in the shape of a reclining ram, with ruby-set eyes, corded gold horns, the hinged reeded gold mounts with ruby-set foliate gold thumbpiece
2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) wide
Provenance
Royal Hungarian Hofrat Gustav von Gerhardt, Budapest; (+) part I, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 7-9 November 1911, lot 450.
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