Lot 179
179
A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN (LOTS 164-181)
A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY ESAIAS OBICKER (1733-1802), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1770, WITH THE HANAU TOWN MARK FOR 19 CARAT GOLD AND TWO FRENCH MARKS FOR IMPORTED GOLD 1864-1893

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A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY ESAIAS OBICKER (1733-1802), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1770, WITH THE HANAU TOWN MARK FOR 19 CARAT GOLD AND TWO FRENCH MARKS FOR IMPORTED GOLD 1864-1893
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with panels of translucent dark-blue enamel on an engine-turned ground highlighted with taille d’épargne trailing gold and enamel vines, within white enamel fillets and taille d’épargne foliate outer borders, the cover centred with an oval enamel miniature of a lady and her two young children in a landscape
2 7/8 in. (68 mm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Hanau boxes with the maker's mark EO are very rare and have only recently been attributed by Dr Lorenz Seelig to the goldsmith Esaias Obicker. This Hanau goldsmith originally worked alongside the Souchay brothers but was working independently by 1762. For another box by this goldsmith see lot 103.

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