Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection
A gold snuff box, John Northam, London, 1821
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May 16, 01:56 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 CHF
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Description
rectangular with rounded corners and waisted sides, the lid centred with a chased flowerhead in a rectangular sablé cartouche, the ground with chevron engine-turning, chased acorn borders, fully hallmarked, in red leather presentation case,
8.3 cm; 3 ¼ in. wide
John Northam registered his mark in 1793 and was active between then and 1835. He worked primarily as an outworker for the royal goldsmiths Rundell Bridge and Rundell, and also did repairs for Wakelin and Garrard, for whom he supplied boxes and carried out numerous repairs between 1793 and 1808 (see: Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles, 1991, 337). English goldsmithing of this period was characterised by richly chased varicoloured-gold decoration. In fact, Charles Truman comments that work produced by John Northam and Alexander James Strachan in this period, ‘display a confidence of both form and ornament hitherto unattained by English goldsmiths’ (Truman, p. 275).
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