A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection

A gold-mounted black jasper snuff box in the shape of a boar, probably German, 19th century

Auction Closed

December 10, 02:29 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A gold-mounted black jasper snuff box in the shape of a boar, probably German, 19th century

the body elaborately carved as a friendly reclining boar, its eyes set with rose diamonds, the oval gold mount chased with scrollwork, unmarked

9cm., 3 1/2 in. wide

This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and the heirs of Margarete Oppenheim. | Please note the estimates for this lot are £20,000-30,000 and not as stated in the printed catalogue.

Margarete Oppenheim collection, sold Kunsthaus Böhler, Munich, 18-20 May 1936, lot 310, plate 32;

Baron de Redé and Baron Guy de Rothschild Collections, sale, Meubles et Objets d’Art provenant de l’Hôtel Lambert et du Château de Ferrières, Sotheby’s Monaco, 25/6 May 1975, lot 24

Some of the gold-mounted hardstone snuff boxes were kept in the collection for another thirty years: one in the shape of a mouse, a puddingstone gold box in the shape of a reclining dog and two further animal-shaped examples were sold as part of the second Collection du Baron de Redé Provenant de l'Hotel Lambert sale at Sotheby's Paris, 16 March 2005, lots 35-38.