Papier-mâché snuff box with a cylindrical body and a repeating gilt-rosette and latticework grid design, cover damaged. Housed with a 20th-century sample of snuff from Horace Walpole's tobacconist (Fribourg & Treyer)., Title from dealer's catalog., Acquired as having been owned by Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Note that this snuffbox is not mounted in gold., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Ditto, red colour, mounted with gold. (Description of previous lot to which ditto refers: A curious old green colour papier mâché French snuff box, mounted with gold.)
A coffer on stand, oak veneered with marquetry of ebony, rosewood, brass, copper, pewter, and tortoiseshell; with gilded mounts. Ormolu mounts stamped with 'C' couronné poinçon, now lined with later red silk., Title devised by curator., Text from 1774 and 1784 Horace Walpole's Description of the Villa: 75 [Round Drawing Room]: A trunk of tortoishell and bronze; by Boul, on a frame of the same; a small jar of Seve china under it., Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A remarkably fine Old Boule Coffer, a splendid specimen of this work, at an early period, the front elaborately finished with tortoiseshell ground work, massive or-molu mountings, masque handles, chased rosette corners, and lined with blue silk, on a pedestal en-suite, with richly worked boule back and stand for porcelaine., and Also available as a digital reproduction.