A jewelled gold and enamel snuff box, Friedrich Fyrwald, Stockholm, 1794,

A jewelled gold and enamel snuff box, Friedrich Fyrwald, Stockholm, 1794,

oval, in Geneva taste, decorated in translucent blue enamel over sun-ray reeded engine-turning within opaque white enamel and colourful paillon borders, the lid later applied with an oval enamel plaque painted with a pastoral subject in a rose-cut diamond frame, maker’s mark, fully hallmarked for 20ct gold, in modern red leather case

6.7cm., 2⅝in. wide

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