PROBABLY DRESDEN, CIRCA 1780

Details

A GERMAN GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
PROBABLY DRESDEN, CIRCA 1780
oval box of garnet matrix with chased gold foliate mounts, in fitted red leather case
3 1/8 in. (80 mm.) wide

Provenance

Reputedly in the collection of Princess Catherine Dashkov.
Christie's, Geneva, 19 November 1980, lot 265.

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Lot Essay

Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (1743-1810) was the closest female friend of Empress Catherine the Great and a major figure of the Russian Enlightenment. Born Countess Catherine Vorontsova, she was the third daughter of Count Roman Vorontsov. She married Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Dashkov (1736–1764), a prominent Russian nobleman in February 1759.

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