An early 19th century Swiss or German gold and enamelled snuff box
An early 19th century Swiss or German gold and enamelled snuff box
Apparently unmarked apart from later French shell import marks to the flange
Rectangular with canted corners, the cover set with a finely painted classical enamel panel, possibly Alexander the Great showing his thigh wound after the Battle of Issus (333 BC), with a chased oak leaf frame betweeen chased borders of mask heads and wheat sheaves, the sides and base with similar chased panels of acanthus cornucopiae, wheat sheaves and paterae within blue and white enamel stringing, length 9cm, weight all-in 128oz.
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An early 19th century Swiss or German gold and enamelled snuff box
Apparently unmarked apart from later French shell import marks to the flange
Rectangular with canted corners, the cover set with a finely painted classical enamel panel, possibly Alexander the Great showing his thigh wound after the Battle of Issus (333 BC), with a chased oak leaf frame betweeen chased borders of mask heads and wheat sheaves, the sides and base with similar chased panels of acanthus cornucopiae, wheat sheaves and paterae within blue and white enamel stringing, length 9cm, weight all-in 128oz.
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