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A gold and hardstone snuff box, London, circa 1765, in the style of boxes retailed by James Cox

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

rectangular, the light green hardstone panels overlaid with gold openwork chased with scrolls and rocailles producing the effect of two-coloured gold, the mounts to the sides of the lid further chased with an interlaced band, the interior unlined, slightly wavy interior gold mounts, apparently unmarked apart from later French import marks for 1864-1893,

7,8 cm; 3 in. wide

overall weight 145gr, 4,66 oz

Formerly Collection of the Vicomtesse de Couvral (1816-1901);

Thence by descent;

Sotheby's, Monaco, 29th November 1975, lot 20

The cagework mounts are very similar to those on a gold

mounted moss agate box, attributed to James Cox,

formerly at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, illustrated by

A. Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes,

Woodbridge, 1981, pl. 567.

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