Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Vertu | Including the Castle Howard Collection

Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Vertu | Including the Castle Howard Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1105. A German porcelain silver-gilt-mounted snuff box, possibly Frankenthal, mid-eighteenth century.

Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection

A German porcelain silver-gilt-mounted snuff box, possibly Frankenthal, mid-eighteenth century

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May 16, 02:15 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 CHF

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Lot Details

Description

rectangular, the exterior decorated with sprays of flowers, the lid interior painted, in the manner of Jacob Osterspey, with ladies with a picnic basket, seated in parkland, with two gallants in attendance, with reeded gilt-metal mounts and thumbpiece,


9 cm; 3 ½ wide

With Röbbig, Munich

Cranfield University used non-invasive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected, a result consistent with eighteenth century manufacture.