A 19th century German diamond- and emerald-set vari-coloured gold oval snuff box, probably German,
21*
Sold for £39,650 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • For a box engraved by Sahler with scenes from the Seven Years War and similar basket weave and rayed grounds, see Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe (Woodbridge 1990), pl.717.

    Provenance:- Sold, Property of a Lady, Sotheby's May 2004.

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A 19th century German diamond, emerald and vari-coloured gold oval snuff box,

Category: Decorative Arts / Silver

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