A Private Collection of Snuff Boxes & Bonbonnières - 25 Apr 2017
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A Birmingham enamel snuff box
A Birmingham enamel snuff box,
c.1760-70, modelled as a lady's shoe, brightly painted with polychrome sprays of flowers, the heel and trim enamelled a rich yellow, the sole painted brown, 10cm long.
Cf. Sotheby's, The Rous Lench Collection, 7 July 1986, lot 829 for a similar example.