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Unknown French goldsmith silver-gilt snuff box
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- silver, steel, brass
- 8.1cm, 3 1/8in wide
the base and hinged lid decorated with scallop shell flutes spinnning from a leafy mask, gilt interior, maker's mark rubbed
Literature
Exh. Cat. Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, 2011, no. 116A where the box is atributed to Thomas Germain.
Catalogue Note
The cover of the present box relates to a design by Paul Decker, 1700-1710, Nuremberg, now at the V&A Museum, see A.K. Snowman, 18th Century gold boxes in Europe, Woodbrige, 1990, plate 40. The author also illustrates a similarly-shaped gold box of the same date by Joseph Bellanger, pl. 185.