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A GEORGE III GOLD ROYAL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX

Lot 22
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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ID 992568
Lot 22 | A GEORGE III GOLD ROYAL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
A GEORGE III GOLD ROYAL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX

BY ALEXANDER JAMES STRACHAN (FL. 1799 - C. 1850), LONDON, 1802

Shaped as a shell of tortoise, the lid engine-turned with diaper pattern within polished gold bands, engraved on the base with initials AE below a crown within laurel wreath, the borders engraved with flowers on a reeded ground, engraved in cover with an inscription, marked in base and in cover

21/2 in. (60 mm.) wide

2 oz. 1 dwt. (64 gr.)

The inscription reads: 'A Present from their R.R.H.H./ the Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth/ to Earl Harcourt/ 1803'.



The initials are those of Princess Augusta Sophia (1768-1840) and Princess Elizabeth (1770- 1840) daughters of King George III and Queen Charlotte.





Provenance

George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt (1736-1809), by bequest to his wife,

Elizabeth, Countess Harcourt (1746-1826), daughter of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon (1709-1780), by bequest to her nephew,

The Reverend Leveson Vernon Harcourt (1888-1860), son of the Rt. Hon. Most Reverend Edward Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York (1757-1847), presumably then by descent,

The Harcourt Collection; Sotheby’s, London, 10 June 1993, lot 198.



Literature

The Will of George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt (1736-1809), Public Record Office Mss. PROB 11/1497/126, folio 28, 'To Elizabeth Countess Harcourt my wife...my small Gold Snuff Box in the shape of a Tortois [sic.]...'

The Will of Elizabeth, Dowager Countess Harcourt (1746-1826), Public Record Office Mss. PROB 11/1708/104, folio 3, 'to my nephew the Revd Leveson Vernon a gold snuffbox in the shape of a tortoise'

E. D. Harcourt ed., The Harcourt Papers, Oxford, 1880, p. 228p. 236. 'The Large Drawing Room...In a small table cabinet in the Drawing Room are several article of curiosity...A snuff-box, the present of the Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth to Lady Harcourt.'



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