A two-colour gold snuff box, Emanuel Münzberg, Vienna, circa 1815, and smaller example, Alexis Proffit, Paris, 1788/89

Property of an Italian private collection

A two-colour gold snuff box, Emanuel Münzberg, Vienna, circa 1815, and smaller example, Alexis Proffit, Paris, 1788/89

the first, rectangular with cut corners, all sides engine-turned in high relief, framed by borad chased borders of leafy foliage, interlaced with a wreath in each corner, maker’s mark, Vienna town mark, the rim further struck: R incuse, 8.9cm., 3 1/2 in. wide; the second slightly smaller, rectangular with cut-corners, all sides decorated with an engine-turned pellet pattern over reeded ground, maker's mark for Alexis Proffit, second charge mark of Henri Clavel (1782-1789), discharge of Jean-François Kalendrin (1789-1792),8.3cm., 3 1/4 in. wide,

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