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CIRCA 1890, BLUE SHIELD MARK, IMPRESSED NUMERALS
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A Vienna-style dark-blue-ground circular box and cover
Circa 1890, blue shield mark, impressed numerals
The cover painted by K. Beckmann with a classical allegorical figure, probably Erato, the naked female figure with a white drape over her left knee, holding a branch, a lyre at her side, seated before a reeded column, signed, within a seeded gilt roundel gilt with pendant scrolls, the compressed box with similar gilt ornament (some rubbing to gilding)
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diam.
Circa 1890, blue shield mark, impressed numerals
The cover painted by K. Beckmann with a classical allegorical figure, probably Erato, the naked female figure with a white drape over her left knee, holding a branch, a lyre at her side, seated before a reeded column, signed, within a seeded gilt roundel gilt with pendant scrolls, the compressed box with similar gilt ornament (some rubbing to gilding)
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diam.