PROBABLY GERMAN OR ENGLISH, CIRCA 1750/1760

細節

A WOOD AND JEWELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
probably German or English, circa 1750/1760
Fantaisie box in the form of a tobacco-bale, of carved and polished burr-walnut, the gold ropes and mounts with foliate scrolling thumbpiece set with rubies, garnets and silver-mounted old-mine cut diamonds
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) high

來源

With S. J. Phillips Ltd., London, 1967, acquired by
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-1).

注意事項

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拍品專文

A Dresden quartz snuff-box probably by Taddel, also in the shape of a tobacco bale, is illustrated in A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, Woodbridge, 1990, pl. 669 and was sold Christie's, Geneva, 14 May 1991, lot 27.