The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Auction Closed
March 24, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A group of nine objects of vertu, late 18th century and later
comprising a crystal seal with blank matrix; a tubular gold-mounted agate case, second half of the 19th century, apparently unmarked; a Japanese lacquer snuff box of tri-form shape, representing a pagoda by a hilly riverscape; two enamel pill boxes with gilt-metal mounts, English, each painted with a dedication to a friend; two gilt-metal Pitt Club medals, stamped: Non Sibi Sed Patriae Vixit, the reverse stamped: Pitt Club / Sir Edward Knatchbull Bart / In Memory of the Rt Honble Wm Pitt died 23 Jany 1806 Aged 47; a hexagonal gold-mounted poudre d'écaille snuff box, probably French, circa 1785, the lid set with a circular Staffordshire enamel plaque, the interior tortoiseshell-lined, with a handwritten note; and a gold, enamel and lacquer snuff box, circa 1780, damaged and not illustrated
the box 8.3cm. diameter; the tubular case 8.5cm. high