Swedish Silver Snuff Box by Johan Bergman, 18th/19th Century
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18th/19th century Swedish silver snuff box, marked with three crowns, I B (Johan Bergman Lulea), of oval form, decorated with incised scrolling foliage to top, with foliate banners to side, total weight 40gm, 7.5 cm x 4.5 cm. Provenance: collection of the late Fredric Sinfield, Sydney NSW, 1938 - 2008
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- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Incised - A record of a name, date or inscription, or a decoration scratched into a surface, usually of a glass or ceramic item with a blunt instrument to make a coarse indentation. Compare with engraving where the surface is cut with a sharp instrument such as a metal needle or rotating tool to achieve a fine indentation.
This item has been included into following indexes:
- Bergmann, Franz Xavier (Austria) - bronze foundry 78
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snuff boxes, country of origin
- Australian 41
- English, silver 412