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Lot Essay
Cf. A. Somers Cocks and C. Truman, Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objects de Vertu (1984), p. 270.
Details
A Meissen gilt-metal-mounted snuffbox
naturalistically modelled as a pug, recumbent on a grassy mound, with a puce and gilt collar painted with scrolls, with replacement hinged mounts, the cover replaced with a hard stone panel, circa 1750 (some rubbing to the extremities, some minute chips to ears) -- 8cm. wide
See illustration
naturalistically modelled as a pug, recumbent on a grassy mound, with a puce and gilt collar painted with scrolls, with replacement hinged mounts, the cover replaced with a hard stone panel, circa 1750 (some rubbing to the extremities, some minute chips to ears) -- 8cm. wide
See illustration
Special notice
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