" A GREEN JASPER SNUFF-BOX, mounted with gold borders finely chased with flowers and foliage in vari- coloured gold, in the style of the period of Louis XV., the panels and borders richly overlaid with baskets and sprays of flowers, trophies and foliage in white and fancy-coloured diamonds."
The box acquired by Queen Mary, consort of King George V, King of the United Kingdom (1867-1953)
"seized by the Soviet authorities 1917 (inv. 1922, no. 80); by whom sold to a British syndicate; by whom sold Christie's, London, 16 March 1927 (lot 91); bought by Levy; M. La Comtesse Alain de Villeneuve; by whom sold Christie's, London, 22 July 1932 (lot 141); bought by Queen Mary (£1,000; QMPP, VII, no. 95), July 1932."
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