A gold and tortoiseshell snuff box, probably English or German, circa 1725-30
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December 10, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description
A gold and tortoiseshell snuff box, p🅠robably🏅 English or German, circa 1725-30
of slender rectangular form, both lid and base inlaid with blond and dark tortoiseshell within gold cagework chased inside and out with small figures, animals and birds on a sablé ground, within husk and strapwork borders, raised thumbpiece, in modern shagreen case,
8.1 cm., 3 1/4 in. wide
John Halswell Kemeys-Tynte, 9th Baron Wharton, who was born on 12 January 1908, inherited the title upon the death of his father in 1934. He served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserves throughout the Second World War and in 1967 he married Joanna, daughter of Walter Henry Law-Smith. He died without issue on 11 July 1969 when the title dev🍃olved to his sister, Doroth♉y (1907-1974).
A. Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, Woodbridge, 1990, pls. 534 and 535;
Hugh Tait, 'An anonymous loan to the British Museum: Eighteenth century gold boxes', Connoisseur, no. 154, December 1963, p. 219
Clare Le Corbeiller, European and American s♋nuff boxes, 1730-1830, London, 1966, cat no. 244