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GENEVA, CIRCA 1780, WITH PRESTIGE MARKS INCLUDING A MAKER'S MARK 'IH'
細節
A SWISS GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Geneva, circa 1780, with prestige marks including a maker's mark 'IH'
Shuttle-shaped high gold box, the cover and base engine-turned with a wavy pattern simulating moiré silk, within a wavy band of burnished reeding on a radiating coin pattern ground, the sides engine-turned with a chequerboard of alternating diametrically opposed diagonal coin pattern rectangles divided by vertical zig-zag lines, foliate raised thumbpiece
36 in. (90 mm.) wide
4¾ oz. (137 gr.)
Geneva, circa 1780, with prestige marks including a maker's mark 'IH'
Shuttle-shaped high gold box, the cover and base engine-turned with a wavy pattern simulating moiré silk, within a wavy band of burnished reeding on a radiating coin pattern ground, the sides engine-turned with a chequerboard of alternating diametrically opposed diagonal coin pattern rectangles divided by vertical zig-zag lines, foliate raised thumbpiece
36 in. (90 mm.) wide
4¾ oz. (137 gr.)
來源
Christie's, Geneva, 26 April 1978, lot 306.