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TWO GEORGE II GILT-METAL SNUFF-BOXES
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TWO GEORGE II GILT-METAL SNUFF-BOXES

UNMARKED, CIRCA 1750

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TWO GEORGE II GILT-METAL SNUFF-BOXES
UNMARKED, CIRCA 1750
One rectangular, the sides repoussé and chased with scrolling foliage, flowers and a swan, the hinged cagework cover pierced with scrolling rocaille, flowers and a bird, inset with a panel of lapis lazuli, the second, rectangular, the slightly bombé sides cast with fluting and foliage, the base chased with rocaille, fishscales, flowers and scrolls, the hinged cagework cover pierced with scrolls and the figure of a reclining god, with an aventurine insert
Each - 3 in. (7.5 cm.) long (2)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The sarcophagus-scrolled box, with reed-wrapped and antique-fluted sides, celebrates the Element of Water with a rudder-bearing river deity reclined amongst reeds beside a water-issuing urn. The deity, framed by a triumphal-arched bridge, is perched on a shell-scalloped cartouche amongst picturesque undulating architectural scrolls. A related picturesque box, depicting a figure symbolising the River Tiber, bears the date 1741 and signature of George Michael Moser (d.1783), who was famed as a chaser from Geneva (A.K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Goxes of Europe, Woodbridge, 1966, p.275).

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