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APPARENTLY UNMARKED, THE NETHERLANDS, CIRCA 1720
Details
A Dutch silver-mounted tortoiseshell snuff-box
Apparently unmarked, the Netherlands, circa 1720
Oval, the reverse and hinged cover with tortoiseshell plaque, plain spool-shaped side the hinged cover set with openwork scene of five Commedia dell'Arte figures with floral scrolls and canopy, double scroll thumpiece
8.8 cm. wide
gross 76 gr.
Apparently unmarked, the Netherlands, circa 1720
Oval, the reverse and hinged cover with tortoiseshell plaque, plain spool-shaped side the hinged cover set with openwork scene of five Commedia dell'Arte figures with floral scrolls and canopy, double scroll thumpiece
8.8 cm. wide
gross 76 gr.
Provenance
B.W.G. Wttewaall collection (inventory no. D169).
Literature
B.W.G. Wttewaall, Nederlands Klein Zilver, Abcoude, 2003, pp. 277-278, ill. 861.
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