A CONTINENTAL STONE-SET GOLD SNUFF BOX

PROBABLY RUSSIAN, CIRCA 1825

細節

A CONTINENTAL STONE-SET GOLD SNUFF BOX
Probably Russian, circa 1825
Oblong, the box set over-all with cabochon turquoises, with chased rocaille and scroll gold thumbpiece, apparently unmarked
3in. (75mm.) long

來源

Christie's, London, November 24, 1981, lot 143

拍品專文

A similar Russian turquoise-covered gold box, bearing the mark of Carl Helfried Barbé of St. Petersburg, is in the collection of the Hillwood Museum and Gardens, and published in Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, 1966, pl. 641. Another turquoise-covered trunk-form snuffbox, maker's mark DK of St. Petersburg, is in the Gilbert Collection and illustrated in Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, vol. 2, 1999, p. 89.