Gold Boxes, Ceramics & Silver
Gold Boxes, Ceramics & Silver
Lot Closed
May 26, 12:15 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A jewelled four-colour gold and enamel Royal portrait presentation snuff box, Charles Colins & Söhne
Hanau, circa 1822
rectangular with rounded corners, the lid inset with an oval enamel plaque representing Louis XVIII, King of France, wearing a dark blue coat with epaulettes, with the sash and star of the Order of the Saint Esprit and the badge of the Légion d'Honneur, in a chased double frame, on a sablé ground richly chased with floral and scrolling foliage around three collet-set diamonds to each side, the waisted sides similarly decorated, the underside centred with an elaborately chased spray of varicolour gold flowers witin an oval wreath within scroll-decorated spandrels and a zig-zag border, maker’s mark, Hanau CK mark
9.4cm, 3 3/4 in. wide