Josef Maria Auchentaller (Vienna 1865-1949 Grado), a silver box with coloured enamel depiction: three female figures with a box, designed in c. 1898, executed by Georg Adam Scheid, Vienna, by 1922

silver with mistletoe leaf decoration in relief; the lid with coloured enamel depiction of three pre-Raphaelite female figures with a box; the side partially green enamelled, ground with wave motif; partly gilt interior; traces of use; the interior marked twice with company signet GAS, Diana’s head silver purity hallmark (900) and B 0; height 2 cm, length 6.9 cm, depth 3.7 cm. (MP)

Provenance:
Austrian Private Ownership.

Literature:
Schaling, Georg Adam Scheid, p. 70.

Specialist: Dr. Magda Pfabigan, M.A.