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A pair of Saint-Cloud tobacco jars and covers in a fitted wooden travelling case, circa 1740-50 image 1
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Lot 207

A pair of Saint-Cloud tobacco jars and covers in a fitted wooden travelling case, circa 1740-50

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

£2,000 - £3,000

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A pair of Saint-Cloud tobacco jars and covers in a fitted wooden travelling case, circa 1740-50

Of cylindrical form with moulded vertical fluting, the flat covers with corresponding fluting issuing from a flared conical knop, in a fitted wooden case with blue silk lining, the jars: 14cm high including covers; the case: 16.7cm high; 23.5cm across; 13.4cm deep (5)

Footnotes

Provenance:
British American Tobacco Collection of Eighteenth-Century Tobacco Containers & Accessories (acquired in 1985)

Literature:
D. Gage/M. Marsh, Tobacco Containers & Accessories (1988), no. 11

Exhibited:
London, The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, The Dorchester Hotel, Special Loan Exhibition, The British-American Tobacco Company Collection of Tobacco Containers & Accessories, 10-13 June 1988

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