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A RARE EN PLEIN, GUILLOCHÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL GOLD SNUFF BOX
Lot 224 PROPERTY OF A LADY

A RARE EN PLEIN, GUILLOCHÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL GOLD SNUFF BOX

MARKED KEIBEL, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1860, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 833

Closed3 June 2019

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A RARE EN PLEIN, GUILLOCHÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL GOLD SNUFF BOX
MARKED KEIBEL, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1860, SCRATCHED INVENTORY NUMBER 833
Rectangular, champlevé and guilloché enamelled with stylised varicolour scrolling foliage on an opaque black enamel ground, the hinged cover, base and sides, with cartouche-shaped reserves en plein enamelled with views of St Petersburg, including a view of the Palace Square, the monument to Peter the Great, various views of the Neva and environs including the Stock Exchange and the Fortress of Peter and Paul, with thumb-piece, marked inside cover and base and on rims
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm) wide

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10-11 June 1985, lot 473.

Specialist note

Johann Wilhelm Keibel was the son and apprentice of the famous goldsmith Otto Samuel Keibel. After his father's death in 1809, he adopted the same mark and became master in 1812. Keibel was one of the most important workshops producing gold boxes in Russia in the first half of the 19th Century. After the death of Johann Wilhelm Keibel in 1862, the firm specialised in the production of insignia until 1917.