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A Hardstone Snuff Box with Two-Color Gold Mounts, Probably English, 19th Century with Earlier Elements

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Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

A Hardstone Snuff Box with Two-Color Gold Mounts, Probably English, 19th Century with Earlier Elements

circular, the hinged lid overlaid with chased openwork gold foliage and scrolls inhabited by putti with instruments, the reeded gold mounts with a small thumbpiece, the later body and lid of coffee-colored agate, apparently unmarked,

Diameter 3 in.; 7.6 cm

Sotheby's, Paris, November 8, 2012, lot 48;

Where acquired by the present collector.

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