A GEORGE II GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
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A GEORGE II GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX

LONDON, CIRCA 1740

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A GEORGE II GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
LONDON, CIRCA 1740
cartouche-shaped box of banded agate, the cover overlaid with pierced gold cagework depicting two lovers in a rural landscape, within scrolls hung with garlands of foliage on a sablé ground, chased gold mounts with slightly raised diamond-set scroll thumbpiece
2¾ in. (70 mm.) wide

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