A GERMAN ROYAL JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX

BY CARL MARTIN WEISHAUPT AND SONS (FL. FROM 1837), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1860, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NOS. 1960 AND 3599

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A GERMAN ROYAL JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX
BY CARL MARTIN WEISHAUPT AND SONS (FL. FROM 1837), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1860, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NOS. 1960 AND 3599
cartouche-shaped box, the cover and lobed baluster sides engraved, cast and embossed with floral scrolls partly enamelled in opaque blue, the cover applied with an oval blue guilloché enamel plaque set with old and rose-cut diamond studded mirrored initials 'FW', a Royal coronet above, for Frederick William IV (1795-1861), King of Prussia 1840-1861 or Frederick William V (1797-1888), King of Prussia 1861-1888, within a dye-stamped floral gold rim, flanked by eight silver-mounted old-cut diamonds, the base centred with a reserve engraved with a posy of flowers surrounded by feathered, foliate and c-shaped scrolls
3¾ in. (95 mm.) wide

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 28 April 1976, lot 138.
Christie's, London, 21 November 2000, lot 269.

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Lot Essay

The Royal cypher may refer to either King Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795-1861) or to his younger brother King Frederick William V of Prussia (1797-1888) who acted as Regent after a stroke incapacitated his elder brother in 1858, and who succeeded him in 1861. King Frederick William V of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor as William I in Versailles in 1871.
For other boxes by this goldsmith see lots 108, 112 and 115.

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