'GEORGE IV' A RARE LACQUERED PAPIER-MACHE SNUFF BOX

'GEORGE IV' A RARE LACQUERED PAPIER-MACHE SNUFF BOX

IN THE MANNER OF SAMUEL RAVEN, C.1825-30

the pull-off cover painted with a portrait of George IV after Sir Thomas Lawrence, the underside titled in red 'George IV' and numbered '212'

13cm diameter

Catalogue Note

See Yvonne Jones, 'Japanned Papier-Mâché and Tinware, c.1740-1940', p.264, pl.297, for a very similar box by Samuel Raven which is in the collection of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.