A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF BOX
A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF BOX

DRESDEN, CIRCA 1750

Details
A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF BOX
Dresden, circa 1750
Rectangular, the amethystine quartz snuff box applied with gold mounts, the base engraved with a diaper and floral ground, the cover applied with rocaille cagework centering a frolicking putto, apparently unmarked
3 1/8in. (79mm.) long

Lot Essay

A cagework and amethystine quartz snuffbox bearing the initials EP for Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna is in the Gilbert Collection, illustrated in Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, vol. 2, 1999, no. 17. Another is illustrated in the Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection, Christie's, London, April 11, 2002, lot 932.

More from Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art

View All
View All