A GERMAN STONE-SET AND ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX

BY CHARLES COLINS SONS, MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1860, THE MINIATURE BY ALOIS GUSTAV ROCKSTUHL (1798-1877), SIGNED AND DATED ON THE BACKING PAPER MARCH 1860

细节

A GERMAN STONE-SET AND ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX
by Charles Colins Sons, marked, Hanau, circa 1860, the miniature by Alois Gustav Rockstuhl (1798-1877), signed and dated on the backing paper March 1860
Cartouche-shaped box with baluster sides, engraved all over with c-scrolls and foliage, the cover, scrolling foliate thumbpiece and front side furthermore enamelled with blue scrolls, the cover centred with a circular portrait miniature of King Christian IX of Denmark wearing uniform and the sash of the Royal Danish Order of the Elephant and the cross of the Royal Danish Order of the Dannebrog and numerous other orders, within a glass-stone border flanked by six larger silver-mounted glass-stones
3½ in. (88 mm.) wide

来源

Presented by the sitter to a diplomat, thence by descent in the family of the recipient until the present owner.

拍品专文

The signature on the backing paper of the miniature specifies that Rockstuhl took 19 hours to paint it. Christian IX (1818-1906), from the branch of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was King of Denmark 1863-1906. He was married in 1842 to Louise of Hesse-Cassel and became father of a King of Greece, a Queen of England and an Empress of Russia.