Gold Boxes, Silver and Ceramics
Gold Boxes, Silver and Ceramics
A charming gold and enamel combined scent bottle and snuff box, Nathaniel Falchengreen, Copenhagen, 1757
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November 10, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A charming gold and enamel combined scent bottle and snuff box, Nathaniel Falchengreen, Copenhagen, 1757
in the form of a shepherdess and her excited hound leaning against a tree trunk, her softly falling dress decorated with a pricked pattern, hung about with painted opaque enamel roses and other flowers surrounded by green basse-taille enamel leaves, the base with vine leaves on basketwork, the stopper formed as a wide-brimmed green enamelled straw hat decorated with enamel flowers and gold leaves, maker’s mark, assay master’s mark, town and date mark, 21ct gold standard mark,
6.7cm, 2⅝in. high
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Little is known about the Danish gold and silversmith Nathaniel Falchengreen, who was born in 1720 and was active in Copenhagen between 1755 and 1771. He died in 1772 (Chr. A Bøje, Danske Guld og Sølv Smedemærker før 1870, Copenhagen, 1946, p. 82). While silver objects made by him occasionally appear in Scandinavian sale rooms, gold boxes or scent bottles marked by Falchengreen seem to be rather rare. In fact, the only other example of this quality seems to be a very similar gold and enamel scent bottle in the Royal Collections at Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen (inv. no 13-202), which a gift from kommerceråd ('commercial counsellor') Heymann in 1867.