A cocquilla nut snuff box

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A cocquilla nut snuff box
mounted in white metal, finely carved with panels of military and musical trophies, the cover depicting the figures of a soldier and young boy standing beside a gun carriage, the ends modelled with a grotesque mask with inset glass eyes and ivory tounge, and a cherub mask respectively, English, late 18th/early 19th century -- 3½in. (9cm) long
See Illustration.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, Bell & Hyman, London 1969. Page 194, similar examples illustrated fig. 207.

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