18TH CENTURY
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A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED IVORY POWDER-FLASK
18th Century
With pear-shaped body cut with a male and female portrait bust, each within a laurel wreath, with engraved trophies of arms between, plain mounts (base-plate loose) each with pierced dog-tooth border, and tapering nozzle with slide-on cap, the decoration perhaps later
6¼in.
18th Century
With pear-shaped body cut with a male and female portrait bust, each within a laurel wreath, with engraved trophies of arms between, plain mounts (base-plate loose) each with pierced dog-tooth border, and tapering nozzle with slide-on cap, the decoration perhaps later
6¼in.
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