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.)
Title devised by cataloger., A lock of Madame de Maintenon's hair, medium brown hair secured to paper backing with small paper label. Kept in the Glass Closet at Strawberry Hill with letters from Madame de Maintenon. Below label securing the lock, written in Horace Walpole's hand: "Cheveux de Made. de Maintenon". Further note also mounted on same paper also in Walpole's hand "Written by Madame de Maintenon & given to me at St. Cyr by one of the Nuns. Hor Walpole.", Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two original letters of Madame de Maintenon, also a lock of her hair., and Mentioned in letter from Walpole to Marie du Deffand 27 January 1775 (published in Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence) | Sabin receipt dated January 1929. | Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill [database] sh-000404
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.
Three figures participating in various tasks relating to harvesting salt in a salt marsh
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Leonid Berman, part of a group known as the Neo-Romanticists, was born in 1896 in Saint Petersburg, moved to France in 1919 and in 1946 relocated to the United States., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Physical diagnosis, Hand lenses, Medicines, Tongues, Sick persons, and Physicians
