Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 March 2015
Jewellery, English Silver, Furniture, Decorative Arts and Oriental Carpets
Lot Estimate
ZAR 7 000 - 9 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 7 612
About this Item
57 Cornhill Street, London, England
A Victorian coromandel and brass-mounted dressing case, William Lund, 57 Cornhill Street, London
the blue velvet-lined interior fitted with eight silver-mounted glass bottles, each with circular vacant cartouche, four with the mark of Frances Douglas, London, 1856, the detachable rectangular pad with seven small steel or mother-of-pearl accessories, the detachable tray with silver handles enclosing an open and covered compartment, the cover with easel-back mirror enclosed behind the hinged leather-lined writing surface, the lower half with fitted jewellery drawer, the hinged cover inlaid with a brass plaque engraved with the initials 'AGKM', the case with maker's plaque engraved 'Lund. 57 Cornhill, LONDON', 17,7cm high, 29,5cm wide, 21cm deep
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