Maker's mark IS German silver snuff box

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

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Description

silver, gold, enamel
8.5cm, 3 ¼ in wide

Oval, bright-cut within ribbon borders, the hinged lid set with a gold-mounted enamel portrait of a lady

Literature

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 158

Catalogue Note

Walter Klein records three possible goldsmiths working in Schwäbisch Gmünd at the time, with the initials IS, Siebold, Schedel and Straubenmüller. See: Geschichte des Gmünder Goldschmiedegewerbes, Stuttgart, 1920, p. 53.