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A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A HARDSTONE CAMEO
Lot 17

A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A HARDSTONE CAMEO

HANAU, CIRCA 1780/1790, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE FOR PARIS

Closed29 November 2016

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A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A HARDSTONE CAMEO
HANAU, CIRCA 1780/1790, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE FOR PARIS
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with panels of translucent purple enamel within polished gold frames, the cover set with a hardstone oval cameo of a lady facing left, within foliate frame set at intervals with opaque white enamel beads, similar beaded outer borders with translucent red and green enamel berries and foliage, inside of cover engraved 'This box was the gift of Count Worongow to Sir Walter Farquhar Bart.'
3¼ in. (82 mm.) wide

Specialist note

Count Semyon Romanovich Woronzow (1744-1832) was an Ambassador of the Russian Czars to the English Crown. His daughter Catherine (1783-1856) became the second wife of George Augustus Pembroke, 11th Earl of Pembroke. Sir Walter Farquhar, 1st Baronet (1738-1819) was a prominent Scottish physician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, whose clientele included many of the leading figures of the day, including the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, and the Prime Minister William Pitt.