19TH CENTURY
Details
A tortoise-shell box and a birch wood box
19th century
Each circular, the first with gilt-metal mounts and hairwork on lift-off cover; the second lined with tortoise shell and set with later mother-of-pearl portraitbust on blue enamel ground
77 mm. diam. (largest box) (2)
19th century
Each circular, the first with gilt-metal mounts and hairwork on lift-off cover; the second lined with tortoise shell and set with later mother-of-pearl portraitbust on blue enamel ground
77 mm. diam. (largest box) (2)
Special notice
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