Silver-Gilt Tobacco Box with Drunken Man

NETHERLANDS OR GERMANY, 18TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.

4 1/4 in. (173 grams, 10.8 cm wide).

Discoid container with repoussé panel to the lid depicting a landscape with flowers, a beer-barrel and a standing figure in 17th century costume holding a purse in one hand and a goblet in the other.

Provenance

Private collection, Europe.
Acquired on the English art market.

CONDITION

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LOT 2002