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BY JOHANN CHRISTIAN NEUBER, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1785, THE MINIATURE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1785
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A VERY FINE SAXON JEWELLED HARDSTONE AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Johann Christian Neuber, Dresden, circa 1785, the miniature Austrian School, circa 1785
Octagonal box, the cover applied with an oval portrait miniature depicting Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (1768-1835) as a young man in white uniform, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the sashes of the Austrian Military Order of Maria-Theresia and the Royal Hungarian Order of St Stephen, within a old-cut diamond border, the octagonal cover and base panels inlaid with a Zellenmosaik of striated brown and red agate plaques shaped as petals, concentrically radiating and swirling on a semi-translucent green ground, within borders of cream-coloured agate sticks, the four long sides of the base centred by oval rosettes inlaid with striated green and orange agate panels radiating from a carnelian ovolo, the lower end of the sides inlaid with diagonally cut carnelian sticks and an engraved gold band, the polished gold borders of lid, sides and base inlaid with a ribbon-twist band of carnelians centred by sky-blue and yellow glass flowerheads
3 in. (82 mm.) wide
by Johann Christian Neuber, Dresden, circa 1785, the miniature Austrian School, circa 1785
Octagonal box, the cover applied with an oval portrait miniature depicting Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (1768-1835) as a young man in white uniform, wearing the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the sashes of the Austrian Military Order of Maria-Theresia and the Royal Hungarian Order of St Stephen, within a old-cut diamond border, the octagonal cover and base panels inlaid with a Zellenmosaik of striated brown and red agate plaques shaped as petals, concentrically radiating and swirling on a semi-translucent green ground, within borders of cream-coloured agate sticks, the four long sides of the base centred by oval rosettes inlaid with striated green and orange agate panels radiating from a carnelian ovolo, the lower end of the sides inlaid with diagonally cut carnelian sticks and an engraved gold band, the polished gold borders of lid, sides and base inlaid with a ribbon-twist band of carnelians centred by sky-blue and yellow glass flowerheads
3 in. (82 mm.) wide