Live Auction 10398Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A POLISH DOUBLE-OPENING GOLD SWEETMEAT BOX
Lot 220 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
(LOTS 220-228)

A POLISH DOUBLE-OPENING GOLD SWEETMEAT BOX

PROBABLY WARSAW, CIRCA 1770/1780

Closed2 December 2015

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GBP 10,625

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A POLISH DOUBLE-OPENING GOLD SWEETMEAT BOX
PROBABLY WARSAW, CIRCA 1770/1780
cartouche-shaped upright box with waisted sides, a hinged cover at either end with an internal dividing panel creating two compartments of unequal size, the two covers and sides with cartouches finely chased with a diaper-pattern within wavy reeded borders, slightly flared thumbpiece on each cover
2 in. (52 mm.) high
3 oz. (99 gr.)

Specialist note

A box with a similar construction by Buchel, a goldsmith active in the eighteenth century in Warsaw, Poland, is in The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, C. Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Volume II, London, 1999, p.96.