Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Lots 26-29 were bought in the Dr Anton C R Dreesmann Collection sale in 2002 by a private European collector.
Further boxes bought at this sale will be coming up in two future Bonhams sales: Fine European Ceramics, Bond St, 6th December 2018; Home & interiors, Knightsbridge, 11th December 2018
Further boxes bought at this sale will be coming up in two future Bonhams sales: Fine European Ceramics, Bond St, 6th December 2018; Home & interiors, Knightsbridge, 11th December 2018
Lot 29Ф,Y
A late 18th/early 19th century tortoiseshell and gold mounted surprise snuff box the portrait miniature by Samuel Shelley (1750/56 - 1808), signed to the backing paper S. Shelley / Henrietta St / Co t Garden
21 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,875 inc. premium
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Michael Moorcroft
Consultant
A late 18th/early 19th century tortoiseshell and gold mounted surprise snuff box
the portrait miniature by Samuel Shelley (1750/56 - 1808), signed to the backing paper S. Shelley / Henrietta St / Co t Garden
Oval, the cover with a secret compartment with spring-operated, flush-hinged cover engraved with a JR monogram within a sunburst opening to revel a portrait miniature on ivory of a young girl in a pink dress, facing left, with curled brown hair, with bright-cut hinge-mount on a plain shell base, length 8cm.
Oval, the cover with a secret compartment with spring-operated, flush-hinged cover engraved with a JR monogram within a sunburst opening to revel a portrait miniature on ivory of a young girl in a pink dress, facing left, with curled brown hair, with bright-cut hinge-mount on a plain shell base, length 8cm.
Footnotes
Provenance:
Sir Julian Goldsmid, Bt, Christie's, London, 8th June 1896, lot 65 (as by Cosway, £75 to Hodgkins).
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 24th November 1981, lot 38 (to Dreesmann)
Dr Anton Dreesmann, inventory number F134.
Christie's, London, 11th April 2002, lot 890.
Private European collection.
Literature:
D. C. Williamson, Richard Cosway, R. A. London, 1897, p.110 (as by Richard Cosway).
This box was bought in the Dr Anton C R Dreesmann Collection sale in 2002 by a private European collector.
Further boxes bought at this sale will be coming up in two future Bonhams sales: Fine European Ceramics, Bond St, 6th December 2018; Home & Interiors, Knightsbridge, 11th December 2018.