Collector‘ s Items

This silver gilt spoon presents a wonderful example of the baroque eating culture of the end of 17th century from Augsburg. The maker is Abraham Mair....

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...