A GEORGE III GILT-METAL AND STONE-SET NECESSAIRE
A GEORGE III GILT-METAL AND STONE-SET NECESSAIRE

LONDON, CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III GILT-METAL AND STONE-SET NECESSAIRE
LONDON, CIRCA 1770
Tapering oval, the sides and hinged cover set with silver-mounted pink garnets and white pastes along the borders and forming a lozenge pattern, the ground later-painted with floral sprays, apparently unmarked
4¾ in. (12 cm.) long

拍品专文

This necessaire relates to two examples applied with nearly identical pastes and pink garnets and combining gold and gilt-metal in the manner of James Cox. One sold in these Rooms, 26 October 2007, lot 29, and another sold Sotheby's Geneva, May 18, 1995, lot 20.