A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE NECESSAIRE**

CIRCA 1760, POSSIBLY ENGLISH

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A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE NECESSAIRE**
Circa 1760, possibly English
Tapering rectangular with faceted sides, mounted with finely chased pierced rococo mounts with birds, the push-in button flanked by winged putti, the interior fitted with a needle, knife, ivory tablet, pencil and tweezer, apparently unmarked
3in. (9cm.)long (4)

拍品專文

This type of ncessaire, with mounts rarely marked, seems to have been contemporaneously produced in France, Germany and England, making their attribution difficult. While the pierced mounts are close in style to German rococo designs, the distinctive striated agate is closely comparable to some tuis-ncessaires in the Louvre dated circa 1760-1770 and possibly English (see Serge Grandjean, Catalogue des tabatires botes et tuis des XVIIIe et XIXe sicles, Paris, 1981, no. 505 and 506).