Lot 89
89
A MENNECY SILVER-MOUNTED WHITE SNUFF-BOX modelled as a shell-shaped basket with entwined twig handle filled with berries and leaves, the cover moulded with a flower (cracked, slight chips to leaves), Paris décharge for 1762-68, circa 1765

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A MENNECY SILVER-MOUNTED WHITE SNUFF-BOX modelled as a shell-shaped basket with entwined twig handle filled with berries and leaves, the cover moulded with a flower (cracked, slight chips to leaves), Paris décharge for 1762-68, circa 1765
6cm. long
Provenance
M.Fitzhenry, sold Paris 13/16 December 1909, lot 339

Lot Essay

Cf. the coloured example in the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection sold in our New York Rooms on 22 March 1991, lot 414

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