Fine Decorative Arts, 1200-1900 New Bond Street, London | 18 December 2020 Fine Decorative Arts, 1200-1900 New Bond Street, London | Friday 18 December 2020 at 2pm VIEWING ENQUIRIES REGISTRATION PHYSICAL CONDITION Please refer to department for Astrid Goettsch IMPORTANT NOTICE OF LOTS IN THIS AUCTION up-to-date viewing information. Senior Sale Coordinator Please note that all customers, PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO +44 (0) 20 7393 3975 irrespective of any previous activity REFERENCE IN THIS CATALOGUE with Bonhams, are required to SALE NUMBER [email protected] TO THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF complete the Bidder Registration 25946 ANY LOT. INTENDING BIDDERS Michael Lake MRICS Form in advance of the sale. 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Central Middlesex Acton Ln Hospital Park Royal Acton Ln Cadogan Tate Coronation Road W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a Park l C Royal iWestern Ave A40 R o Station a 0 d 0 Acton 0 North 4 Cemetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V CADOGAN TATE, 241ACTON LANE, LONDON, NW10 7NP West Acton Horn Lane Station Fine Decorative Arts Specialists London Astrid Goettsch Senior Sale Coordinator Michael Lake MRICS Sculpture, Clocks & Works of Art Thomas Moore Furniture Helena Gumley – Mason Carpets & Tapestries Ellis Finch Silver Miles Harrison Silver Michael Moorcroft Gold Boxes & Vertu 1 AN 18TH CENTURY GERMAN GOLD AND AMETHYSTINE The present lot forms part of a select group of carved hardstone QUARTZ PUG DOG BOX animal and figural snuff boxes where the colours and textures within Dresden circa 1750, with later Swedish 18 carat gold marks the stone are used to great effect. See these rooms, Burton Collection, Carved in the form of an alert pug dog reclining with finely detailed 18th June 2014, lot 7, a horse’s head. fur and curled tail, the darker purple veins in the stone used to highlight the head and a patch on the back, with paste-set eyes and Charlie Truman points out in his note to Cat.67, The Gilbert Collection an amethyst-set collar, the hinged base with wavy gold mount and of Gold Boxes, p.195 (LA 1991), that these boxes are attributed asymmetrical scrolling thumb-piece, length 8.8cm. to Dresden because of the similarity to the models produced at the Meissen factory. Furthermore, Dresden was a centre for skilled £15,000 - 20,000 hardstone carving. €17,000 - 22,000 US$19,000 - 26,000 A fine collection of similar boxes was sold by Baron de Redé and Baron Guy de Rothschild, Sotheby’s 25th May 1975, lots 10-27, including ram dudlesacks, a figure of Polichinelle, a cow, a goat, cats, Provenance lambs, a tortoise, a chicken, a squirrel, a horse’s head and various A private Swedish collection. dogs. The Hermitage in St Petersburg holds several German agate snuff boxes, including mocha agate twin lions, InvЭ -4035 and a For a very similar pug box with turned alert head and curled tail, see striped agate lion, Inv Э-4146. Grandjean et al, The James A de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, cat. 10, p. 38, inv. W1/34/5**, where the natural colours within the stone have similarly been used to great effect to highlight the head and the fur; it also has a very similar wavy gold hinge mount. There are other boxes with similarly carved alert reclining pugs with curled tails, though here the cushion bases are the more dominant features; the Royal Collection, RCIN 4048, and the Rijksmuseum, see plate 649, p.314, Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe (Woodbridge 1990). For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 4 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.