Lot 51
51
A VICTORIAN GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
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A VICTORIAN GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

LONDON, CIRCA 1840, THE MICROMOSAIC, ROME, CIRCA 1810

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A VICTORIAN GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
LONDON, CIRCA 1840, THE MICROMOSAIC, ROME, CIRCA 1810
rectangular box, the sides and base set with panels of peak-pattern engine-turning, the cover set with a micromosaic plaque depicting an Italian estuary landscape with three figures on a riverbank with a town opposite, in the distance a city across a bay with a mountain beyond, within a polished gold frame and chased foliate border, in fitted brown leather case stamped 'Abud & Collingwood. / late Kitching & Abud. / Jewellers to The Queen. / Conduit St. / 46'
3¾ in. (95 mm.) wide

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Lot Essay


A very similar micromosaic set on a tortoiseshell snuff-box is in the Gilbert Collection, London, and is illustrated in J. Hanisee Gabriel, The Gilbert Collection. Micromosaics, London, 2000, p. 197, no. 128. The mosaic possibly depicts a view of the Bay of Naples.

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