MAGNIFICENT PRESENT SNUFF BOX WITH MONOGRAM HEINRICH KARL WILHELM IV. PRINCE OF CAROLATH-BEUTHEN.
Presumably Hanau. Ca. 1830.

Rose gold; yellow gold. Set with rose diamond; turmalin; lapis; jasper; topaz; onyx; tiger's eye; citrine; and green glass stone. Rectangular fundamental form with rounded corners and laterally hinged lid. On ground and sides most delicately guilloched areas in rose gold; the edges with finely engraved leaf frieze offset in yellow gold. On the top finely chiseled leaf tendrils and in rectangular interior field fine blossom tendrils on sabl?ground in trois couleurs. Centrally large applied monogram under prince's crown with rich; many-colored stone sets. Ca. 122g. 2x8;5x6;5cm.

Inside marked: BZ with shield; marks in the manner of the Parisian gold marks of the 18th c.; maker's mark 'FOT'; indistinct.On the inner rim engraved number '3307'. Condition A/B.

Provenance:
- Henry Carl Wilhelm IV. Prince of Carolath-Beuthen.
- District judicial council Johann Seeliger; through succession in family possesion to present day.

Enclosed handwritten note:
'Geschenk des F黵sten Heinrich zu Carolath-Beuthen etwa 1845 (?) an meinen Gro遶ater den
F黵stumsgerichtsdirektor Kgl. Kreisjustizrat Johann Seeliger in Carolath H. Fritsch'. (Present of Prince Henry of Carolath-Beuthen around 1845 (?) to my grandfather the princely court director royal district judicial council Johann Seeliger in Carolath H. Fritsch').Art trade; Van Ham.