Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 3rd July 2019
Lot 431
λ A Spanish tortoiseshell and ivory box
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000
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Description
λ A Spanish tortoiseshell and ivory box, with kingwood / prince's wood banding and with five panels of engraved ivory and tortoiseshell silhouettes, depicting scenes of rural life, with figures, buildings and animals, the back panel with a stag hunt, within stiff leaf borders, late 17th / early 18th century, 9cm high, 14cm wide, 7.8cm deep.
Provenance: Antigone Clarke & Joseph O'Kelly, Antique Boxes, Tea Caddies & Society, 1700-1880, 2nd Edition, p.130, fig.179.