Collector‘ s Items

Antique silver sugar caster made in Hannover c. 1730/40 of unusually heavy quality. Very nice shape and condition. From the property of the house von Schilden. Maker: Bernhard Hinrich Corthnum....

In the early eighteenth century, French snuff boxes (tabatières) made of gold and enamel or of other precious materials, were quite fashionably in Germany. Boxes, namely snuff boxes, which are decorated like this present one, are usually attributed to the workshop of the Huguenot Pierre...