Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 10 October 2016
English, Continental, Oriental and Cape Silver, Furniture and Decorative Arts
About this Item
A Cape silver snuff box, apparently unmarked, early 19th century
rectangular with canted corners, the hinged cover engraved with a shield-shaped cartouche and the initials 'MCM', with wrigglework borders, the reverse engraved with a flowerhead, the base with a hole, dents, 35g, 5,4cm wide
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