Live Auction 7800Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A CONTINENTAL ROCOCO GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Lot 309

A CONTINENTAL ROCOCO GOLD SNUFF-BOX

MARKED 'T', WITH CLOVER AND 'FLEURS-DE-LYS', GENEVA OR HANAU, CIRCA 1770

Closed17 November 2009

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GBP 18,750

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A CONTINENTAL ROCOCO GOLD SNUFF-BOX
MARKED 'T', WITH CLOVER AND 'FLEURS-DE-LYS', GENEVA OR HANAU, CIRCA 1770
Rectangular box with bevelled edges, the hinged cover, sides and base engine-turned with vertical zigzag bands against horizontal wavy coin reeding
2 5/8 in. (65 mm.) wide
3½ oz. (102 gr.)

with Kaufhaus des Westens, Berlin, 1996.

Specialist note

A stylistically similar Swiss snuff-box with indecipherable marks made in Geneva, circa 1760 is recorded in K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1990, p. 411, pl. 902 and 903.