Lot Essay
The initials are for Alice Edmonstone Keppel, the mother of Violet Trefusis.
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Details
A Victorian glass and silver-mounted cylindrical powder box
the hinged cover embossed in the rococo style with scrolls, rocaille and flowers around a central cartouche engraved with the initials 'A.E.K.', Sampson Mordan & Co., London, 1890 -- 4½ in. (11.2 cm.) high.
Illustrated colour plate 2.
the hinged cover embossed in the rococo style with scrolls, rocaille and flowers around a central cartouche engraved with the initials 'A.E.K.', Sampson Mordan & Co., London, 1890 -- 4½ in. (11.2 cm.) high.
Illustrated colour plate 2.
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