Six English and Continental 18th Century Enamel Articles, including a Rare Notebook.

Lot: 120

Germany, France and England.
Circa 1770 and later.
Including a rare notebook and diary, between enamel book covers, in original leather case, formerly in the Max Strauss Collection, Vienna a French silver-mounted rectangular buckle, with Neoclassical scene a squat round vinaigrette, with Monk enameled to lid an English silver-mounted flask-shaped flat scent bottle, enamelled with allegories of music and dancing an English oval agate patch box with enamel top, with the story of Moses and a rectangular box, with card and music playing themes, dedicated to Brother Chrestien, Surgeon of Louisbourg.
The vinaigrette marked for Nrnmburg the book with a label for the Max Strauss collection
The book 7/8 x 1 3/4 out of the case the music box 1 5/8 H. x 3 1/4 x 2 1/4.
By descent from the Kaumheimer family, Stuttgart, Germany.
One deep and two shallow hairline cracks to the book covers chip to enamels at 11 oclock on the enamel cover to the agate box. Otherwise, the bases of most with typical wear.
Miniature enamelled books, still intact with their original cases are quite rare. Too, for the German and French reader, the written script on each page gives a glimpse to life in the late 18th Century.

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