Erotic: Passion & Desire

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Lot 29
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Germany, mid-18th century, Snuff box

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Snuff box 
  • miniature signed Radery [?], mounts unmarked
  • quartz, silver-gilt mounts, miniature on ivory
  • 7.9cm., 3 1/8 in. wide
cartouche form, shaped sides, the lid carved as a cockle shell, the interior of the lid with a miniature on ivory depicting a cat scaring her scantily-clad mistress out of her bed