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An early 19th century Swiss gold and enamelled snuff box unmarked, apart from later French eagle's head standard marks image 1
An early 19th century Swiss gold and enamelled snuff box unmarked, apart from later French eagle's head standard marks image 2
Lot 107

An early 19th century Swiss gold and enamelled snuff box
unmarked, apart from later French eagle's head standard marks

9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,000 inc. premium

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An early 19th century Swiss gold and enamelled snuff box

unmarked, apart from later French eagle's head standard marks
Rectangular, the cover with multi-coloured champlevé enamelled decoration of a central vase of flowers draped with a sash, shield and sword flanked by a pair of gothic archways, with B-shaped sides, the underside decorated in blue taille d'épargne enamel with a central simulated engine-turned panel within a floral border, length 6.6cm, weight 51.9gms.

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For an extremely similar box with slight colour variances, see Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe (London 1990), plate *****

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