Lot 1228 - A198 Decorative Arts - Thursday, 30. September 2021, 01.00 PM
A QUARZ SNUFF BOX WITH GOLD MOUNT
Cracks, one corner chipped.
Provenance:
- Sale Sotheby's Geneva, 16.5.1995, Lot 75.
- With Kunsthandel Ars Domi, Zurich.
- Swiss private collection.
Comparable works from the period circa 1760-70 from the Gilbert Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Musée du Louvres. Cf. A.K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, pl. 544.
CHF 2 000 / 3 000 | (€ 2 060 / 3 090)
Sold for CHF 5 000 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.