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Click here to subscribeA George III silver mounted red tortoiseshell tea caddy of bombe form, with pierced escutcheon and shell pattern scroll handle with ball and claw feet, the fittings unmarked, the original burgundy velvet lined fitted interior decorated with silver braid, enclosing a pair of silver tea caddies and a sugar box by Samuel Taylor, London 1770, total weight 33oz, minor damages and with some loss to tortoiseshell veneer, 6 1/2in high, 6in deep, 10in wide.
Jaspar Johns (b.1930) Wallace Stevens, Some Poems, The Arion Press, San Francisco, 1985 (Field 234) etching and aquatint, on laid paper, with title, text and justification, signed in pencil, inscribed 'S' on the justification, from the edition of 26 numbered alphabetically (there was also a numbered edition of 300), with full margins, in very good condition, bound in pale grey covers, in a blue box with the title printed in silver on the spine S. 335 x 250mm. (overall); and Susan Sontag, Dancers on a Plane: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jaspar Johns, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1989, the book, signed in black ink by Cage, Cunningham and Johns on the frontispiece, number 108/200(books) (2)
A small, rare, George III two colour gold and silver mounted "blue john", (Derbyshire flourspar) box of plain cylindrical form, the pull off cover with a fretwork urn of flowers, set with rubies and rose cut diamonds, by an unascribed maker "F G", Sheffield 1801 (contained in original fitted case), 3.5in (1.4cm) diameter.
Dutch silver Pin Box of fan-shaped form, embossed decoration with figures, scrolling foliage, import marks for London 1906, 7cms and a rectangular Dutch silver Box, embossed with pastoral scenes and musicians and an Edwardian silver Pin Box, cushioned lid with gadrooned outlines, Chester 1902, 11cms, (3).
An interesting 19th century elm box relating to The Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, the hinged top inset with ivory plaque engraved "Wellington Tree. Waterloo. June 18th 1815", 9.5ins this box is accompanied by a letter from the National Army Museum. This explains that, on the day of 18th June, 1815 the Duke took up his battle position beneath an elm at La Haye Sainte. Although it cannot be proved, this box purports to have been made as a souvenir from "The Wellington Tree"1248. An early 19th century Windsor Castle silver lustre jug, printed with a panoramic view of the castle and verse to obverse, 4.25in.
A gold snuff box, Charles Magnin, Geneva, circa 1840 rectangular, the lid engraved with the Arco della Pace in the Foro Bonaparte, Milan, within floral scrolls, the sides finely scrolled below twisted borders, 8.8cm, 3 1/2 in; a rectangular gold box, striped engine-turned ornament, applied scroll thumbpiece, struck: K18 7.6cm, 3in; and a rectangular silver-gilt box, French early 19th century prestige marks, the exterior cast and chased overall with a plethora of flowers and leaves, 6.8cm, 2 5/8 in (3) Although designed under the auspices of Napoleon I as King of Italy, the Arco della Pace was not inaugurated until 1838.
Five silver and niello snuff boxes the first, maker's mark erased, French, mid 19th century, the rim engraved: A. Tanfani Roma, the lid with a portrait of Pope Pius IX within lilies and other flowers; another French box, decorated in similar taste with a pastoral subject within strapwork; a Russian box, Moscow, 1888 decorated with a summer troika; and two small Russian and French boxes ornamented with foliage 10-6cm, 4- 2Gin (5)
A silver-mounted enamel box, maker's mark SS in a cut oval, perhaps for Stern & Sohn, Vienna, circa 1895 circular, the lid painted with Venus and Cupid, the sides and interior unusually painted with nocturnal snow scenes on a translucent red ground, 8cm, 3 1/8 in; and an envelope-shaped Viennese enamel box with gilt-metal mounts painted with pastoral subjects, 9.5cm, 3 3/4 in; (2)
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