A French pressed burr maple snuff box, early 19th century

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A French pressed burr maple snuff box, early 19th century
the cover entitled LES PRISEURS LES FUMEURS to the outer edge, depicting five heads all smoking or taking snuff, basket-weave underside and tortoiseshell interior lining -- 3 3/8in. (8.6cm.) diameter

來源

N.L Phipps collection, Christie's Great Rooms, lot 146 (part lot), October 29, 1968, thence to the present collection.

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拍品專文

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell & Hyman, 1985.
Similar example is illustrated in plate 365, item Q. (Section XXII.)