Live Auction 1154Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection
A CHARLES II BOXWOOD OVAL SNUFF BOX
Lot 211

A CHARLES II BOXWOOD OVAL SNUFF BOX

DATED 1678

Closed3 November 2011

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GBP 7,500

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A CHARLES II BOXWOOD OVAL SNUFF BOX
DATED 1678
Carved with the Royal Arms and motto and the date and initials 'L 1678 I' the reverse with a further Coat-of-Arms, possibly those of Rutt, co. Buckingham, Wroth, Godwin or Godwyn quartering others including Catharne
4 in. (10 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2001, lot 71.

Specialist note

A similar but more sophisticated example of this genre of Royal Coat-of-Arms snuff boxes was sold in The Longridge Collection; Christie's, London, 10 June 2010, lot 1030. The present lot is a more naive example.