A GERMAN SILVER-GILT ZOOMORPHIC SNUFF-BOX

Lot 147
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 147 | A GERMAN SILVER-GILT ZOOMORPHIC SNUFF-BOX
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$ 1 200 – 1 800
A GERMAN SILVER-GILT ZOOMORPHIC SNUFF-BOX

MARK OF CHRISTIAN LEO, KONIGSBERG, 1743

Realistically formed and chased as a recumbent lion, the molded rim applied with scroll thumbpiece, marked on the rim

3 ½ in. (9 cm.)

6 oz. 11 dwt. (204 gr.)





Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

M. Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen (Band 2): Deutschland D - M, Frankfurt a.M., 1923, p. 218, No. 2879 and 2881.
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