Objects of Art Including Miniature Portraits, Battersea Enamels, Eighteenth Century Fans, Gold Mounted Snuff Boxes: Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Edith Kingdon Gould (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Attention is directed to the beautiful chased gold and tortoise - shell snuff boxes with inset miniatures, and in particular to the superb gold and red jasper box [no. Inset with the famous portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Jean Petitot [1607 and formerly the property of the King of Saxony; the Directoire tortoise-shell snuff box [no. 128] with inset panoramic miniature by Henri Désiré Van Blarenberghe [1734 an exquisite gold box [no. 127] with miniature landscape paint ings and portrait of Mme. De Pompadour; and a delicately carved agate box mounted in chased gold [no. 122] of the Louis XVI period.

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