Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Wine
Online-Only Auction, 25 May - 1 June 2020
Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
About this Item
An Austro/Hungarian niello silver snuff box, 1803
rectangular, the hinged cover engraved with a foliate cartouche enclosed by a ground of patterned conjoined c's, the front, sides, back and base similarly decorated, gilt interior, bears the initials AK, dents, 8,5cm wide, 85g; an Austro/Hungarian silver snuff box, maker's initials HV, 1866, oblong, the hinged cover engraved with c-scrolls and foliate panels enclosing vertical line-work, the reverse with a rectangular vacant cartouche enclosed by wrigglework and scroll borders, thumbpiece, gilt interior, 8,5cm wide, 60g; and another, maker's initials TD, 1862, rectangular, the hinged cover engraved with foliage, flowerheads and line-work, the reverse with a vacant cartouche enclosed by wrigglework, the corners with flowerheads, thumbpiece, dents, 8,5cm wide, 65g
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