AN AUSTRIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX

BY PIERRE MICHEL COLAS, MARKED, VIENNA, CIRCA 1780

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AN AUSTRIAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
BY PIERRE MICHEL COLAS, MARKED, VIENNA, CIRCA 1780
rectangular box with canted corners, the cover, sides and base inset with panels of opal agate matrix mounted à cage within chased gold borders
2 7/8 in. (73 mm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Another box by this goldsmith is in The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, museum number: LOAN: GILBERT. 364-2008. The same maker's mark on a box in the Louvre is illustrated in S Grandjean Catalogue des tabatières, boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 608, p. 447.

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