Live Auction 7469Important Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
Lot 15PROPERTY FROM THE ELISABETH OSTHOFF COLLECTION

A POLITICAL GERMAN LACQUER BONBONNIÈRE

IN THE MANNER OF STOBWASSER, CIRCA 1820

Closed5 June 2007

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GBP 180

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A POLITICAL GERMAN LACQUER BONBONNIÈRE
IN THE MANNER OF STOBWASSER, CIRCA 1820
Circular black lacquer box, the cover decorated with a profile portrait on a print base of Karl Ludwig Sand (1795-1820), in dark coat, scalloped-edged white shirt, black beret adorned with gold leaves, long auburn hair, the top inscribed with his name in Gothic script, against a mustard yellow ground
3 5/8 in. (91 mm.) diam.

Specialist note

Karl Ludwig Sand was a German university student and member of the liberal Burschenschaft. He was executed in 1820 for the murder of conservative dramatist August von Kotzebue in 1819 in Mannheim whom he recorded in his diary of 1818 as a 'deceiver of the people' and 'a traitor of the nation'. Sand became a martyr in the eyes of many German nationalists who sought a united German national state.