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Description: | Inside the lid is a large peacock butterfly and around the outside of the lid is faint gilt scrolling. The bombe base is painted with a harbour scene and classical ruins enclosed in faint gilt scrolling. The mounts are triple gilt and elaborately engraved.
Oblong snuff box of white enamel painted in coloured enamels with tortoiseshell butterfly on the outside. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Manufacturing industry harbours Decorative arts Butterflies Metalworking industries Snuff Enamels Insects Georgian period | Temporal: | 1750 - 1770
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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