A gold-mounted rock crystal snuff box, Paris, 1765

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

A gold-mounted rock crystal snuff box, Paris, 1765
rock crystal, gold, leather (case)
5.3cm., 2 1/8 in. wide

oval, diamond-cut rock crystal lid and body, the gold mounts chased with entwined laurel and ribbon garlands on a matted ground, maker's mark L [?], charge and discharge of Jean-Jacques Prévost, date letter, in a later red leather case