A group of five enamel boxes with gilt-metal mounts, German, mid-18th century and later

comprising a box in the form of a piano, painted with musical instruments, 11 cm., and four rectangular examples, the first painted with Masonic symbols and mottos, the second with musical scores, another with scattered flowers, the interior of the lid with a portrait of Frederick the Great wearing an armour and the sash of the Order of the Black Eagle, the last with black-painted landscapes reserved against a pink ground, 8-9 cm

Piano with mount detached and some damage and restoration to enamel; the rectangular boxes: Masonic good, flowered good apart from crack at 6 o'clock on lid, music ok, pink, restored top bottom right and other spots
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