RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 8th October, 2020
19th Century Swiss 18k gold snuff box, the lid set with a marquise shaped panel delicately hand painted depicting holly mother and child surrounded by an engraved laurel leaf boarder and a large boarder with ovals and arrows. Engine-turned decoration on lid, sides and base, applied with dark blue translucent enamel, within light blue boarders and navettes.
Hallmarked with crowned maker mark GGB (Guidon, Gide & Blondet Fils, Geneva, 1801-1804), enamelled by Abraham Lissignol.
Reference Number: A6413
20th Century Victorian silver tea caddy, shaped as a Chinese ginger jar on stand, heavy and profusely embossed, depicting c-scrolls and flowers surrounding a Chinese figure in landscape and reverse showing a dragon on matted ground, the domed pull-off lid set with a cast floral finial. Inside the jar is richly gilt and standing on a very elaborate base.
Hallmarked English silver (925 standard), London, year 1900 (e), Maker's mark G&SCoLD for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd.
Reference Number: A6461
19th Century Victorian solid silver novelty cigar cutter, mounted with a realistically modelled head of a labrador set with red cabochon eyes.
Hallmarked English silver (925 Standard), Import mark (F), London, year 1899 (d), Importers mark TH (Theodor Hartmann).
Reference Number: A6459
19th Century Austrian hand painted enamel comport applied with silver-gilt mounts. The round-shaped bowl on domed stand depicting various classical scenes, surrounded by scrolling foliage on blue and white ground, inside decorated in similar manner.
Hallmarked Austro-Hungarian silver guarantee mark (900 standard, used 1872-1922), Maker's mark "LP" for Ludwig Politzer.
Reference Number: A6434