AN AMERICAN GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED PAPIER-MACHE SNUFF BOX

Lot 370
19.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 21 420
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Lot 370 | AN AMERICAN GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED PAPIER-MACHE SNUFF BOX
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$ 4 000 – 6 000
AN AMERICAN GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTED PAPIER-MACHE SNUFF BOX

LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE GOLD AND SILVER-MOUNTS EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The snuff box circular and lacquered black, the later silver plaque to the cover with a presentation inscription below a gold eagle holding a laurel wreath and a ribbon engraved LIBERTY EQUALITY and above crossed gold laurel branches, apparently unmarked

2 3⁄5 in. (7 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Thomas Paine (1739-1809), New York, gifted to,

Daniel Constable (1775-1835), Horley, England, on 1 November 1806, to his nephew,

Dr. Clair J. Grece (1831-1905), Redhill, England.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 28 June 1984, lot 89.



Literature

Moncure Daniel Conway, The Life of Thomas Paine, Vol. II, Cambridge, 1892, p. 389.



Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, long term loan, 2009-2022.
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