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APPARENTLY UNMARKED, THE NETHERLANDS, CIRCA 1760
Details
A fine dutch silver-mounted and shell snuff-box
Apparently unmarked, the Netherlands, circa 1760
The box by a shell (Cypraca tygris), the silver-mounted and the hinged cover decorated with floral scrolls and engraved foliage, plain reeded hinge mount
8.2 cm. long
Apparently unmarked, the Netherlands, circa 1760
The box by a shell (Cypraca tygris), the silver-mounted and the hinged cover decorated with floral scrolls and engraved foliage, plain reeded hinge mount
8.2 cm. long
Provenance
B.W.G. Wttewaall collection (inventory no. D368).
Literature
B.W.G. Wttewaall, Nederlands Klein Zilver, Abcoude, 2003, pp. 278-279, ill. 862 and 863.
Special notice
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