BERLIN, CIRCA 1750, LATER STRUCK WITH THE VIENNESE 'GOLDREPUNZE' OF 1806 AND TWO FRENCH IMPORT MARKS FOR GOLD 1864-1893

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A GERMAN ROCOCO GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE AND VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BERLIN, CIRCA 1750, LATER STRUCK WITH THE VIENNESE 'GOLDREPUNZE' OF 1806 AND TWO FRENCH IMPORT MARKS FOR GOLD 1864-1893
Cartouche-shaped box with baluster sides, of semi-translucent brown and green moss agate, the hinged lid applied with gold reliefs and carved hardstones including rhodonite, carnelian, jasper, azurite and bloodstone depicting a still life with a bird feasting on fruits within a tree and ruin landscape accented with chased gold ground, urn, foliage and perched bird, the rose gold cagework mounts engraved with squares and flutes within bright-cut borders
1 15/16 in. (49 mm.) wide

來源

with Galerie Jacques Kugel, Paris, 1997.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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Rodney Woolley

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拍品專文

The present snuff-box applied with a hardstone still-life reflects the 18th Century vogue for raised stonework at the court of King Frederick II of Prussia. An opulent example of this type of snuff-box with similarly carved fruits 'en relief', once in the collection of Frederick the Great, is now in the Louvre, inv. no. OA 2142 (S. Grandjean, Catalogue des tabatières, boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, p. 279, pl. 420 and W. Baer, Prunk-Tabatieren Friedrichs des Grossen, Munich, 1993, pp. 72-73, no. 48).