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Description: | An oval box with straight sides, deep plain brass mount and hinged lid, the base of the box also has a brass mount. The lid is painted with a panel with rococo edges of classical ruins and foliage near a quayside with a large masted ship, small boat and several figures on a dark blue ground faintly decorated in trellis and dots in gold. The sides are painted with a festoon of flowers, a cock and a parrot and the bottom with a swan on a white ground.
Technique: enamelling
Technique: hand-painting
Material: enamel
Material: metal
Material: brass
snuff box made in South Staffordshire, England, Britain, Europe, (1958.366). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.20509 | Go to resource |
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