- 706
A two-colour gold snuff box, Hanau, circa 1790
Estimate
1,200 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- A two-colour gold snuff box, Hanau, circa 1790
- gold
- 9.8cm., 3 3/7 in wide
elongated oval, decorated with pellets on reeded ground within yellow-gold rose garland borders, hinged at one end, traces of rubbed marks, the rim with 18ct shell mark,
Catalogue Note
The same group of marks appear on a gold and enamel snuff box in the Louvre, see Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 559.