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CIRCA 1800
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TWO GEORGE III IVORY TOOTHPICK CASES ONE SET WITH AN EYE MINIATURE
circa 1800
Two flattened hinged ivory boxes, one rectangular, the lid carved as a grid containing gold piqué point crosses, centred by a gold-mounted circular glazed pleated hair panel concealing an eye miniature opening when a secret gold button at the rear is pressed , the inside of the lid set with a mirror, the inside of the base with three velvet-lined compartments one filled with three small rectangular ivory tablets encrusted with gold trefoils, the other box oblong with rounded ends, the lid centred by an oblong gold-mounted foiled blue opaline glass panel painted with a green leaf surrounded by the gold motto 'JE NE CHANGE QU'EN MOURANT', the interior of the cover set with fitted mirror and the base lined with yellow velvet
3 7/16-3 3/8 in. (87-86 mm.) wide (2)
circa 1800
Two flattened hinged ivory boxes, one rectangular, the lid carved as a grid containing gold piqué point crosses, centred by a gold-mounted circular glazed pleated hair panel concealing an eye miniature opening when a secret gold button at the rear is pressed , the inside of the lid set with a mirror, the inside of the base with three velvet-lined compartments one filled with three small rectangular ivory tablets encrusted with gold trefoils, the other box oblong with rounded ends, the lid centred by an oblong gold-mounted foiled blue opaline glass panel painted with a green leaf surrounded by the gold motto 'JE NE CHANGE QU'EN MOURANT', the interior of the cover set with fitted mirror and the base lined with yellow velvet
3 7/16-3 3/8 in. (87-86 mm.) wide (2)
Literature
J. Nimmergut/A.-M. Wager, Miniaturen · Dosen, Munich, 1982, illustrated p. 126 fig. 58 (part), p. 242 fig. 312 (part).
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