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A hardstone and micromosaic snuff box with gold and gilt-metal mounts, circa 1805

Alternate Warehouse

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

circular, the lid of the green porphyry box lid set with a micromosaic plaque of the ruins of the Temple of Vesta with a small figure in the foreground, in a polished gold frame, gilt-metal mounts, apparently unmarked, with a handwritten paper label reading: ‘To Lord St. Helens / with the Queens Compliments’,

8.4 cm., 3 ¼ in. diam.

A gift to Alleyne Fitzherbethe, 1st Baron St. Helens (1753-1839), from Queen Charlotte (1744-1818);

Lord St. Helens and Sir William Fitzherbert The Collections of a Diplomat and a Courtier, Christie’s London, 22 January 2009, lot 526

Catalogue of Pictures and Curios at Tissington Hall, 1887, by Ida, daughter of Sir William FitzHerbert, 4th Bt., as a 'Round mosaic snuff box given by Queen Charlotte to Lord St. Helens'

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