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AN INGOT-SHAPED GOLD BOX AND HINGED COVER
18TH CENTURY
Chased and engraved around the lightly ribbed sides with small birds hovering above interlocking flower-scrolls and geometric shapes, divided at the angles by acanthus leaves, the cover with a lady seated on a pavilion terrace being handed a flower by an attendant, the interior of the cover incised with a masonic-style sunburst and the base with leaf scrolls--3¼in. (8.3cm.)wide
18TH CENTURY
Chased and engraved around the lightly ribbed sides with small birds hovering above interlocking flower-scrolls and geometric shapes, divided at the angles by acanthus leaves, the cover with a lady seated on a pavilion terrace being handed a flower by an attendant, the interior of the cover incised with a masonic-style sunburst and the base with leaf scrolls--3¼in. (8.3cm.)wide