Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Vertu | Including the Castle Howard Collection

Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Vertu | Including the Castle Howard Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1188. A jewelled gold and enamel snuff box, probably Auguste Lion & Cie, Paris, circa 1865/70.

Property from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection

A jewelled gold and enamel snuff box, probably Auguste Lion & Cie, Paris, circa 1865/70

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of shaped rectangular form, the lid applied with a diamond-set floral ornament on a translucent duck egg blue enamel ground, the baluster sides and the base chased and engraved with strapwork and foliate borders, maker's mark in a horizontal lozenge, two rubbed control marks, French export mark for 1840-1879, the right rim numbered 355,


8.5 cm; 3 ⅜ in. wide

Sotheby's New York, 8 April 2014, lot 173

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