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Description: | A rectangular snuff box with straight sides, a deep chased mount with a pierced handle and a hinged lid. Enamel on metal and painted on the lid and sides with panels of fruit in a tightly modelled style in imitation of Dutch painting with a broad, blue, wavy border, dotted with white and edged inside with a yellow line and outside with crude white scrolls. The heliotrope/lavender ground has trellis and dot ornament with a small heliotrope panel within a raised scroll. A white bottom.
Technique: enamelling
Technique: hand-painting
Material: enamel
Material: metal
snuff box made in South Staffordshire, England, Britain, Europe, (1958.383). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.11831 | Go to resource |
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