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An irregular shaped box with convex sides pinched in towards the base with a hinged lid within a silver mount. Enamel on metal and painted in pink, green, blue and yellow colours on the lid with a scene of a warrior kneeling before a queen and on the sides, bottom and inside with fight scenes and warriors and inside with a flower.
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An irregular shaped box with convex sides pinched in towards the base with a hinged lid within a silver mount with a scalloped lip. Enamel on metal and painted in colours on the lid with a scene showing a warrior kneeling before a queen who has two servants holding her robe and a guard to her left. The sides are painted with a scene of two warriors with shields fighting and a king kneeling before an urn with smoke coming out the top and a large jug and the bottom shows a scene with one man carrying another to a ship. Inside the lid is decorated with two warriors standing next to another man by an urn and column; the inside bottom is painted with a pink flower and bud and the inside rim is decorated with a green, blue, yellow and pink border.
Technique: enamelling
Technique: hand-painting
Material: enamel
Material: metal
Material: silver
snuff box by unknown, 1750 - 1770, (1981.403). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.22371 | Go to resource |
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