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A London gilt-metal-mounted rectangular enamel tobacco box with tamper, circa 1755 image 1
A London gilt-metal-mounted rectangular enamel tobacco box with tamper, circa 1755 image 2
Lot 171

A London gilt-metal-mounted rectangular enamel tobacco box with tamper, circa 1755

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A London gilt-metal-mounted rectangular enamel tobacco box with tamper, circa 1755

Each side with a relief quatrelobed panel painted in crimson camaieu with a landscape vignette, the sides with a boy playing bagpipes and a seated girl the lute, the front and back with a couple fishing, the corners with blue foliate scrollwork, the cover with a scene depicting two boys and a girl with fish and a crayfish and blue shell-devices to the corners, the inside cover with a polychrome landscape scene depicting a dancing couple and a seated flute-player, the base with a recessed quatrelobed panel painted in crimson with a fisherman by a classical ruin and blue flowers in the corners, the tamper painted on both sides with scattered flowers and leaves and mounted with a gilt-metal rim and handle, the mounts with scrollwork thumbpiece, 12.5cm across (2)

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Provenance:
Ole Olsen Collection, Copenhagen, sold Winkel & Magnusson, Copenhagen, 4 May 1953, lot 565;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 24 October 1988, lot 355;
British American Tobacco Collection of Eighteenth-Century Tobacco Containers & Accessories (acquired in the above sale)

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