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Lot 3043

Five Continental Pill and Snuff Boxes, including 18th century

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To include two enamel boxes, 18th century, both unsigned, the first with hand-painted vignettes to each side of couples and figures in landscapes with instruments, the interior lid with portrait of seated woman with a sheet of music, unmarked; the second with hand-painted pastoral scenes within a diapered diapered motif surround.
The third a Dutch Delft 'C' form example, 19th century or earlier, tin-glazed earthenware with metal bezel, featuring hand-painted Dutch seascape and pastoral scenes with courting figures, interspersed with embossed rocaille motifs, signed "AL" to underside and "1010" to interior.
The fourth a Capodimonte porcelain snuff box, late 19th century, hand-painted and gilt with molded relief with female nude and cupids, marked in underglaze blue crowned N to underside.
This lot also includes a 20th century gilt metal box in circular form with an enamel inlaid lid depicting a dove among flowers, unmarked.

Longest 3 1/2 in.

From the Collection of Josephine Chapman Borthwick, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Faience box with some scattered pitting; Capodimonte box with small areas of surface grime, verdigris to brass trim, old wool to interior; scattered hairlines and surface marks to larger enamel box, some rubbing to gilt brass trim; smaller enamel box with scattered hairlines, break and repair with a few small chips to one side; small circular brass box hinge no longer attached to lid..