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Lot 44

A Saint Cloud silver-mounted circular snuff box, circa 1735

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

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A Saint Cloud silver-mounted circular snuff box, circa 1735

Moulded in relief with pagodas on landscape vignettes to the side, a parrot perched on a branch to the base and a hunt vignette with a boar and hound on the cover, the silver mount with discharge mark of Hubert Louvet, Paris 1732-38, 4.5cm diam, (haircrack to side of box at rear)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1319

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no. 370;
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 80;

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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