Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection
A jewelled gold-mounted hardstone and micromosaic snuff box, Johann Christian Neuber, Dresden, circa 1780
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May 16, 01:45 PM GMT
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120,000 - 180,000 CHF
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Description
circular, the lid later applied with a hardstone cameo of Catherine II of Russia in profile to sinister, signed: Walther F., for Ludwig Fried(e)rich Walther (1757-1817), in a rose-cut diamond-set frame, on a ground of ten lapis lazuli Zellenmosaik panels, within a border of a carnelian ribbon twisted around striated agate, the sides engraved with an interlaced border above lapis lazuli ovolos alternating with inlaid fawn-coloured agate flowerheads, flanked by ribbons of carnelian and lapis lazuli, the base decorated with a micromosaic plaque of a sunflower on royal blue ground, within a dark red tesserae frame and an outer hardstone border repeating the one on the lid,
7.7 cm; 3 in. diameter
Charles Walter James, 15th Baron Dormer of Wyng,
sold Replica Shoes 's London, 26 March 1973, lot 99,
Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1979, lot 123
Charles Walter James, 15th Baron Dormer of Wyng, was born in Valetta, Malta in 1903 and succeeded his father Charles Joseph Thaddeus Dormer in 1922. He served in the Second World War, acting as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of New Zealand between 1939 and 1941, for which he was awarded the Knight of Honour and Devotions, Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He married in 1944 and had two daughters. Upon his death in 1975, he was succeeded by his brother, Joseph Spencer Philip Dormer, 16th Baron Dormer of Wyng.
Alexis Kugel, Gold Jasper and Carnelian, Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court, London, 2012, no. 134, p. 358
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