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A very rare Vincennes silver-mounted octagonal snuff-box, circa 1745-50 image 1

A very rare Vincennes silver-mounted octagonal snuff-box, circa 1745-50 image 2

A very rare Vincennes silver-mounted octagonal snuff-box, circa 1745-50 image 3

Lot 54

A very rare Vincennes silver-mounted octagonal snuff-box, circa 1745-50

The Helmut Joseph Collection of Important Snuff Boxes

5 July 2011, 10:30 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £10,800 inc. premium

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A very rare Vincennes silver-mounted octagonal snuff-box, circa 1745-50

Moulded with a border of palmettes around the centre, painted in purple with floral motifs, pierced with two holes at the rear, the lower body with an oval foliate and trellis cartouche on either side enclosing a landscape scene, the sides with flowering branches, the cover moulded with a palmette motif in the centre, embellished in purple and enclosed by a flowering branches tied with a ribbon, the inside cover painted with a scene of ships on a river by a town, 6cm across; 3.7cm high

Footnotes

Literature:
Beaucamp-Markowsky 1988, no. 94

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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