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SHELL-SHAPED SNUFFBOX
SHELL-SHAPED SNUFFBOX
11.1
Unknown (Jeweler)
1722-1727
The shape of the hinged box is the simplified outline of a cockleshell. Both the top and the bottom are covered in mother-of-pearl. An applied vase at the cover's center holds flowers in gold with...
SNUFFBOX
SNUFFBOX
11.10
Unknown (Goldsmith)
late 18th Century
The oval box is hinged. The cover and sides are set withe oval medallions containing chased gold motifs in low relief set against an opaque pink enamel and topped by swags of chased gold flowers...
PRESENTATION BOX
PRESENTATION BOX
11.103
1790-1800
Rhodonite box is rectangular, with corners cut off to make it octagonal. Gold mounting is undecorated. On lid is a relief carved in gold of the double headed eagle with the imperial crown and a...
SNUFFBOX
SNUFFBOX
11.11
Charles Le Bastier (Jeweler)
1774
An oval hinged box. The cover bears an applied medallion containing a painted enamel scene with a young woman and a young man. They have placed flowers on a round pedestal at the left on which...
SNUFFBOX
SNUFFBOX
11.12
Unknown (Jeweler)
1776
An oval hinged box. The center of the cover is (was) set with a miniature in a raised gold frame with white dots simulating pearls. The miniature is of a young man facing to the right, wearing a...
SNUFFBOX
SNUFFBOX
11.13
Jean-Jacques Barrière (Attributed to)
1777
An oval hinged box. The cover has an oval medallion containing a painted enamel scene. It shows a seated youth playing a musical instrument while two women kneel beside him at the right. This is...
BRACELET, ONE OF TWO
BRACELET, ONE OF TWO
11.130.1
Unknown (Jeweler)
c. 1840
Set in the center of the bracelet is a miniature of King Wilhelm Friedrich IV of Prussia encircled with diamonds in an open setting. The tapering bands are adorned with a diamond-set crowned eagle...
BRACELET, ONE OF TWO
BRACELET, ONE OF TWO
11.130.2
Unknown (Jeweler)
c. 1840
Set in the center of the bracelet is a miniature of Queen Elisabeth, wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, encircled with diamonds in an open setting. The tapering bands are adorned with a...
RECTANGULAR BOX
RECTANGULAR BOX
11.131
Unknown (Jeweler)
1848-1852
A rectangular gold box with an oval medallion in the center of the cover. In the medallion are the interlaced initials FR VII surmounted by the royal crown made in silver set with diamonds. The...
PRESENTATION BOX
PRESENTATION BOX
11.134.1-2
William Hamy (Maker)
1823
Beneath the raised border of acorns that encircles this round box appears a band of musical instruments - a lyre, violin, drums, trumpets, tubas, violins, and harps, with sprays of leaves between...
SEAL
SEAL
11.137
Catchpole & Williams (Attributed to)
c. 1848
The seal is shaped like a mailed arm and hand holding a baton. The elbow and forearm portions are made in bloodstone, while the elbow piece and mailed glove are chased in gold. The baton is also...
SEAL
SEAL
11.138
Unknown (Jeweler)
c. 1851
The holder is made from gold, and is engraved and enameled in royal blue. It is in the shape of an arm and a hand in armor, engraved in every detail. The royal blue portions of the steel are...