A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection
A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection
An enamel snuff box with jewelled gold mounts, possibly Southern German, dated 1671
Auction Closed
December 10, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
An enamel snuff box with jewelled gold mounts, possibly Southern German, dated 1671
circular, painted on the exterior with subjects from the story of Joseph, as told in the Genesis, including the dreams of the Pharaoh, within elaborate floral enamel borders in relief, the interior painted with a fortified town by a riverscape, reeded gold mounts, the thumbpiece set with a rose diamond, unmarked, but dated: 1671 on the interior, in a circular leather case embossed with a coronet
5cm., 2 in. diameter
British Antique Dealers' Association Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1968, no. 21