Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day 1 - 20th April 2021
Lot 215
A LACQUERED PAPIER-MACHE QUEEN CAROLINE SNUFF BOX
Estimate £80 - £120 | Hammer £70
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Description
A LACQUERED PAPIER-MACHE QUEEN CAROLINE SNUFF BOX
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
the lid with a coloured engraved portrait bust of Caroline of Brunswick after Abraham Wivell, titled 'Caroline Queen of England', possibly a memento mori of her death on the 7th August 1821
9cm diameter
Provenance
'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The Property of a Gentleman.