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Lot 34

A Frankenthal silver-gilt mounted rectangular snuff box, circa 1770

5 July 2011, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £13,200 inc. premium

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A Frankenthal silver-gilt mounted rectangular snuff box, circa 1770

The sides, base and cover moulded with rocaille cartouches enclosing finely painted landscape scenes with ducks, cockerels, peacocks, owls and other birds and distant buildings, a similar scene to the inside cover, the silver-gilt mount with scroll thumbpiece, 8.2cm wide

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1252

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 297;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 68

Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010

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