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A CONTINENTAL GOLD-LINED TORTOISESHELL CIRCULAR BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

PROBABLY ITALIAN, CIRCA 1830, THE MICROMOSAIC ROME, CIRCA 1800

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A CONTINENTAL GOLD-LINED TORTOISESHELL CIRCULAR BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A ROMAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
PROBABLY ITALIAN, CIRCA 1830, THE MICROMOSAIC ROME, CIRCA 1800
The circular black tortoiseshell composition box with concave sides, the independent cover inset with a tondo micromosaic plaque depicting two quails, one eating a snake, in a landscape with rocks, wheat, shrubs, and a straw basket, set within a gold mount
3¼ in. (83 mm.) diam.

來源

Possibly Simon Romanovitch Woronzow, 3rd Count Woronzow (1744-1832), Russian Ambassador in London, by whom given to Lord St. Helens.

出版

Catalogue of Pictures and Curios at Tissington Hall, 1887, by Ida, daughter of Sir William FitzHerbert, 4th Bt., as a 'Round mosaic snuffbox given by Count Woronzow to Lord St. Helens'

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拍品專文

The interior of the lid is engraved with the words 'En memoire du Comte Simon Woronzow. le 21 Juin 1832'.
St. Helens met Count Woronzow during his first diplomatic posting to Russia between 1783 and 1787, at the Court of the Tsarina Catherine II. Of a similar age, the two became friends. On St. Helens' retirement from diplomacy in 1802, Woronzow was over halfway through what was to be a decade as Russian Ambassador to London. The marriage of Woronzow's daughter Catherine to George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, in January 1808, ensured regular contact in London with St. Helens even after his embassy ended. Possibly a gift from Woronzow to St. Helens, it was on the Russian's death that St. Helens must have added the engraved inscription.