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POSSIBLY ITALIAN, CIRCA 1725-30
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A CONTINENTAL GOLD-MOUNTED SHELL CAMEO SNUFF-BOX
POSSIBLY ITALIAN, CIRCA 1725-30
Formed of two shells within gold mounts chased with a hunt, the body shell carved in cameo with hunters and dogs in a landscape, the other with a reclining hunter with a dog, the interior of the cover fitted with a painting of a hunting scene on vellum under glass, marked on flange with Austrian import mark for Vienna, also with French owl import mark twice
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) long
POSSIBLY ITALIAN, CIRCA 1725-30
Formed of two shells within gold mounts chased with a hunt, the body shell carved in cameo with hunters and dogs in a landscape, the other with a reclining hunter with a dog, the interior of the cover fitted with a painting of a hunting scene on vellum under glass, marked on flange with Austrian import mark for Vienna, also with French owl import mark twice
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) long
Provenance
Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002).
Présenté par
The Irene Roosevelt Aitken Collection
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