An Italian Collecting Journey - Chapter II

A gold-mounted Japanese lacquer snuff box, 19th century in earlier taste

Alternate Warehouse

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

rectangular, all sides decorated with 18th century lacquer representing a hilly landscape with different trees, the gold mounts and the scrolling thumbpiece stamped with a lozenge and chevron pattern, French prestige marks including rubbed maker’s mark CCI, charge mark of Jean-Jacques Prevost, Paris date letter K for 1773/1774,

In a modern leather case stamped for ‘F. B. Thomas & Co., 153 New Bond Street’,

8 cm., 3 ⅛ in. wide

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