A COLLECTION OF SILVER AND SILVERED-METAL-MOUNTED CERAMIC AND ENAMEL PERFUME/SNUFF BOTTLES
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A COLLECTION OF SILVER AND SILVERED-METAL-MOUNTED CERAMIC AND ENAMEL PERFUME/SNUFF BOTTLES

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Closed27 September 2017

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USD 4,750

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A COLLECTION OF SILVER AND SILVERED-METAL-MOUNTED CERAMIC AND ENAMEL PERFUME/SNUFF BOTTLES
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY
Each modelled as shells or bird's eggs with mottled decoration, nineteen examples with painted numbers to the tip of the egg form for McIntyre, two of these with bird's head covers; together with a silver-mounted Ostrich egg marked 'J. Boseck & Co./Jewellers/Calcutta/and/Darjeeling' and another similar, lacking cover
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high, the ostrich egg