RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 16th December, 2019
18th Century Exceptional Swiss 18k gold & enamel snuff box, of round shape,
the cover finely painted with the scene of The Choice of Hercules, the boy Hercules is concealed within trees observing Virtue and Vice whilst the poet waits to record his decision. The two women represent the opposite destinies which life could offer him: on the left Virtue is calling him to the hardest path leading to glory through hardship, while the second, a woman with worldly pleasures, the easier path, is enticing him to vice.
Hallmarked with a makers mark for Guidon, Rémond & Gide.
Reference Number: A6134
19th Century Japanese Meiji period silver & shibuichi table folding screen, both sides decorated with birds amongst prunes, cherry blossom and wisteria with two colour gold on niello ground.
Reference Number: A6103
20th Century silver clock on green marble base, the clock set between a horse-shoe and mounted with a jockey, stirrups and riding crops. The clock is in fully working order and base engraved 'Sheraton Park Tower, Lupe Stakes, Goodwood, 21 May 1987'.
Reference Number: A6107