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拍品專文
Another example of this type of box is illustrated in A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, p. 306, pl. 624.
The widow of the jeweller and goldsmith Louis Buyrette, who worked in Berlin in the 1740s, sold this type of snuff-box which is in the form of German bagpipes and it is interesting that Paul Seidel records the following in 'Die Prunkdosen Friedrichs des Grossen', Hohenzollern Jahrbuch, vol. 5, 1901, p. 85: Delivered by the widow of Louis Buyrette, Berlin, 26 November 1743, to the King, at the Johannis market 1740 in Königsberg, Prussia, '1 Tabatiere de Jaspe blanc garnie d'or et avec des rosettes façon de Cornemuse 130 Thalers'.
The widow of the jeweller and goldsmith Louis Buyrette, who worked in Berlin in the 1740s, sold this type of snuff-box which is in the form of German bagpipes and it is interesting that Paul Seidel records the following in 'Die Prunkdosen Friedrichs des Grossen', Hohenzollern Jahrbuch, vol. 5, 1901, p. 85: Delivered by the widow of Louis Buyrette, Berlin, 26 November 1743, to the King, at the Johannis market 1740 in Königsberg, Prussia, '1 Tabatiere de Jaspe blanc garnie d'or et avec des rosettes façon de Cornemuse 130 Thalers'.