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APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1725
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A GEORGE I SILVER ETUI
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1725
Oval, each side finely engraved with a Baroque cartouche containing draughtsman's tools, surmounted by putti and surrounded by scrolling foliage and strapwork, the hinged cover engraved with grotesque masks on a brickwork ground with a coat-of-arms, containing: a knife, a fork a spoon, scissors, a ruler, a pair of dividers, tweezers, a pencil and ivory tablets, marked with later French import marks
3¾ in. (9 cm.) long
gross weight 4 oz. (131 gr.)
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1725
Oval, each side finely engraved with a Baroque cartouche containing draughtsman's tools, surmounted by putti and surrounded by scrolling foliage and strapwork, the hinged cover engraved with grotesque masks on a brickwork ground with a coat-of-arms, containing: a knife, a fork a spoon, scissors, a ruler, a pair of dividers, tweezers, a pencil and ivory tablets, marked with later French import marks
3¾ in. (9 cm.) long
gross weight 4 oz. (131 gr.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 18 December 1997, lot 25
Literature
L. Morton, editor, Silver at Partridge, Recent Acquisitions, London, November 1998, p. 17, no. 9
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