A RUSSIAN JEWELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH AN ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE
BY JEAN-PIERRE ADOR (1724-1784), ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1760, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED ' ADOR À PETERSBOURG '
A RUSSIAN JEWELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH AN ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE BY JEAN-PIERRE ADOR (1724-1784), ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1760, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED ' ADOR À PETERSBOURG ' rectangular box, the cover, sides and base boldly chased with vari-colour scrolls, foliage, musical trophies and a courting couple on a sablé ground, the cover set at intervals with diamonds and centred by an enamel portrait miniature of Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-1762), Empress of Russia 1741-1762, wearing the blue moir é sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew, within a diamond-set frame, with scrolling diamond-set floral-spray thumbpiece 2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) wide
A RUSSIAN JEWELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH AN ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE
BY JEAN-PIERRE ADOR (1724-1784), ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1760, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED ' ADOR À PETERSBOURG '
A RUSSIAN JEWELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH AN ENAMEL PORTRAIT MINIATURE BY JEAN-PIERRE ADOR (1724-1784), ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1760, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED ' ADOR À PETERSBOURG ' rectangular box, the cover, sides and base boldly chased with vari-colour scrolls, foliage, musical trophies and a courting couple on a sablé ground, the cover set at intervals with diamonds and centred by an enamel portrait miniature of Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-1762), Empress of Russia 1741-1762, wearing the blue moir é sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew, within a diamond-set frame, with scrolling diamond-set floral-spray thumbpiece 2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) wide
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