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An oblong box with straight sides, a plain mount and a hinged lid, enamel on metal and painted on the lid with a landscape within a red scroll border, the ground around this is mottled in pastel colours and painted over with a fine pattern in red, the sides are painted with four sprays of flowers on a white ground.
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An oblong box with straight sides, a plain mount and a hinged lid. Enamel on metal and painted on the lid with a landscape depicting a figure in a blue cloak carrying a red sack walking along a path towards a building in the distance, within a red scroll border. The ground around this is of delicately mottled primrose, pink and blue and painted over in red with a fine pattern of tiny linked up circles and squares to create diamond patterns with dots between. The sides are painted with four sprays of flowers on a white ground. The bottom is painted with a flower.
Technique: enamelling
Technique: hand-painting
Material: enamel
Material: metal
snuff box made in South Staffordshire, England, Britain, Europe, (1958.311). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.20676 | Go to resource |
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