Live Auction 2589Christie's Interiors
A GILT-METAL MOUNTED GLASS AND GEM-SET SNUFF-BOX
Lot 59

A GILT-METAL MOUNTED GLASS AND GEM-SET SNUFF-BOX

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, 19TH CENTURY

Closed6 September 2011

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GBP 525

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A GILT-METAL MOUNTED GLASS AND GEM-SET SNUFF-BOX
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, 19TH CENTURY
The gilt-metal mounted rim set with garnets
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) wide

The Collection of H.R.H The Princess Margaret, Christie's, London, 14 June 2006, lot 458.
Given on the occasion of the marriage of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, to Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon on 6 May 1960, by The Dowager Viscountess Galway, Serlby Hall, Yorks.

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The lot is sold with a Certificate of Provenance with leather folder.