A very rare Franchini gold-mounted millefiori pill box and cover, circa 1845-47
Circular, the cover and base mounted with plaques set with murrines flanked by opposing pairs of leafy rose canes and star canes, the cover with a central gondola, the base with the lion of St. Mark, on a scrambled ground of colourful filigree, ribbon and aventurine, 2.7cm diam
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Paul Gresswell-Wilkins Collection
A scent bottle with a very similar lion cane from the Martin Cohen Collection was sold by Bonhams on 6 October 2020, lot 104 (part). See also the lion canes in the pair of knife handles sold by Bonhams on 11 December 2013, lot 96 and the set of knives illustrated by Lawrence H Selman, The Art of the Paperweight (1988), fig.1.2.
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Circular, the cover and base mounted with plaques set with murrines flanked by opposing pairs of leafy rose canes and star canes, the cover with a central gondola, the base with the lion of St. Mark, on a scrambled ground of colourful filigree, ribbon and aventurine, 2.7cm diam
Provenance
Paul Gresswell-Wilkins Collection
A scent bottle with a very similar lion cane from the Martin Cohen Collection was sold by Bonhams on 6 October 2020, lot 104 (part). See also the lion canes in the pair of knife handles sold by Bonhams on 11 December 2013, lot 96 and the set of knives illustrated by Lawrence H Selman, The Art of the Paperweight (1988), fig.1.2.
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