A Louis Xv Gold-Mounted Burgau, Mother-Of-Pearl and Lacquer Snuff-Box

Rectangular, with plain reeded borders and shaped thumbpiece, the cover, base and sides set en cage with panels of black lacquer inlaid with iridescent shells and gold piqué depicting on the cover a cockerel with flowering tree and house, on the underside and sides with birds in flowering garden, marked in cover, base and inner rim with charge, date-letters (Y and Z) and maker; on flange with decharge

Estimate:£8,000

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