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A GERMAN ROCOCO GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
Dresden, circa 1750
Rectangular red mottled agate box with slightly bombé sides, the gold mounts engraved with sunburst motifs within ovolos and lozenges and stylized acanthus leaves on a horizontally reeded ground, with slightly raised thumbpiece -- 81 mm wide, two minimal hairline cracks.
Dresden, circa 1750
Rectangular red mottled agate box with slightly bombé sides, the gold mounts engraved with sunburst motifs within ovolos and lozenges and stylized acanthus leaves on a horizontally reeded ground, with slightly raised thumbpiece -- 81 mm wide, two minimal hairline cracks.