Memorials of Christie's : a record of art sales from 1766 to 1896 . das a violin, mounted with figures of children,scrolls and festoons of chased gold, 245 guineas ;a spherical case of silver gilt, heads in medallions,and with two minute wood engravings of Deathand the Last Judgment, 460 guineas ; Almanachde la Cour, 1776, the cover painted with figures,no guineas; an oval tortoiseshell box, mountedwith chased gold thumb-piece, with a miniatureof Prince Charles Edward Stuart inside the lid,280 guineas ; and oval gold Louis XVL box, withblack and gold lacquer panels, top and bottom, withnumerou
Memorials of Christie's : a record of art sales from 1766 to 1896 . das a violin, mounted with figures of children,scrolls and festoons of chased gold, 245 guineas ;a spherical case of silver gilt, heads in medallions,and with two minute wood engravings of Deathand the Last Judgment, 460 guineas ; Almanachde la Cour, 1776, the cover painted with figures,no guineas; an oval tortoiseshell box, mountedwith chased gold thumb-piece, with a miniatureof Prince Charles Edward Stuart inside the lid,280 guineas ; and oval gold Louis XVL box, withblack and gold lacquer panels, top and bottom, withnumerous figures in landscapes, chased gold cagemounting, 380 guineas ; a circular bonbonniere oftortoiseshell, inlaid with scrolls of gold pique, withfine enamel portrait by Petitot inside the lid, 380guineas ; seven oblong boxes of Battersea enamel,painted with landscapes, figures, and cattle, sides LOUIS XIV. WRITING TABLE. Hamilton Palace sale (p. 37). enisalem Del; c, signed Nouzou,eet 6 inches, 840lother illustrationin carved and Hitrhe conmd portra; A Louis %rmed. OBJECTS OF ART AND VERTU. 43 painted with flowers, 355 guineas ; a large oviformvase of rock crystal, engraved with cornucopiaand scroll ornaments, mounted with lions masks,205 guineas; an oblong casket, formed of fivelarge slabs of agate, mounted with gold, withCorinthian columns at the angles, 6x4, and 5inches high, 300 guineas ; a circular wax medallionportrait of Titian, in richly embroidered, furred,black dress, holding a portrait of his son, inscribedTitiani Pict. et Filii Efigies, 5 inches diameter,310 guineas; an oblong gold snuff-box, beautifullyenamelled with six medallions of seaports withshipping and numerous figures in borders, 510guineas; an oval cup of rock crystal, very finelycarved with marine monsters, waves, masks, andornaments mounted with gold, enamelled incolours, 1,150 guineas ; an oval-shaped fluted cupand cover, of lapis lazuli, on stem and foot of thesame, mounted with silver gilt, 9 inches h
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