UNIDENTIFIED MAKER'S MARK CT OR CF WITH CROWN ABOVE, HANAU, CIRCA 1780

Details

A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
UNIDENTIFIED MAKER'S MARK CT OR CF WITH CROWN ABOVE, HANAU, CIRCA 1780
narrow oblong box with rounded ends, the cover, sides and base with panels of horizontal reeded engine-turning within translucent green enamel frames, with chased foliate outer borders
3½ in. (88 mm.) wide

Provenance

Succession De Florence J. Gould, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, 27 June 1984, lot 2218.

Special notice

These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

Brought to you by

Matilda Burn

Check the condition report or get in touch for additional information about this

mburn@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3026

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

View condition report

Lot Essay

A box of very similar form and decoration and with identical marks is recorded by L. Selig in Golddosen Des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 2007, no. 44, p. 404, ill. p. 508, on a box listed in the 1796 inventory of the collection of Furst Carl Anselm von Thurn and Taxis.

More from Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes

View All