Two dutch silver snuff-boxes
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Two dutch silver snuff-boxes

MAKER'S MARK ONLY OF JOHAN FEDDEMA, LEEUWARDEN, CIRCA 1790, ALSO STRUCK WITH LATER DUTCH DUTY-MARKS OF 1812-1813, MARK OF H. VAN DE WOERT, AMSTERDAM, 1773

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Two dutch silver snuff-boxes
Maker's mark only of Johan Feddema, Leeuwarden, circa 1790, also struck with later dutch duty-marks of 1812-1813, mark of H. van de Woert, Amsterdam, 1773
Cartouche-shaped, the hinged cover with farmer with buckets in C-scroll foliate medallion, the silver-gilt shaped oblong snuff-box with hinged cover with Venus and Adonis in garden and with a dog, marked on bodies
6.5 cm. long
79 gr. (2)
Provenance
B.W.G. Wttewaall collection (inventory nos. D391, D485).
Literature
B.W.G. Wttewaall, Nederlands Klein Zilver, Abcoude, 2003, pp. 270-271, ill. 838 (right) and ill. 839 (right).
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