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Lot 35
An Ansbach gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1770-80
5 July 2011, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,000 inc. premium
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An Ansbach gilt-metal-mounted snuff box, circa 1770-80
Cartouche-shaped, the sides painted with four landscape vignettes supported by gilt foliate scrollwork, alternating with trailing forget-me-nots hung from gilt trellis panels, the base with a similar vignette, the cover with a more extensive river scene, the inside cover with a smaller vignette below branches of forget-me-nots, the wavy mounts with a scrollwork thumbpiece, 7.2cm across
Footnotes
Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1316
Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 314;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 70;
Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1972-2003;
London, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, 2003-2008;
Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2008-2010
