Lot 83
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A FINE GEORGE III SEED-PEARL BORDERED PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
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A FINE GEORGE III SEED-PEARL BORDERED PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX

ENGLISH, CIRCA 1780/1800

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A FINE GEORGE III SEED-PEARL BORDERED PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
English, circa 1780/1800
Rectangular box formed as a book, the cover, base and rear side set with carved moss-agate plaques of square and rectangular form, with seed-pearl borders, within raised chased gold borders of reeded pillars, the front and side panels with marbelled-effect enamel, hinged square gold thumbpiece enamelled in translucent scarlet with central gold flowerhead on a black enamel circle
3 in. (78 mm.) wide
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Lot Essay

A suite of very similar boxes, one circular and one oval, is illustrated in A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1990, p. 268. Snowman draws comparisons between the style of the circular box to the work of Dresden master Johann Christian Neuber. A further suite comprised of an oval snuff-box and a carnet-de-bal, both by Neuber, is illustrated op. cit., p. 325.

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