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LiveMar 5, 2025
Marc J. Matz has been a prominent antiques dealer for over forty years, specializing in works of art from the China Trade, Colonial India, the Dutch East Indies, Japanese Export, and Southeast Asia. Many pieces have passed from his hands to major museums and private collectors. This magnificent single-owner estate collection showcases outstanding examples of the decorative arts from his wide range of interests, including paintings, silver, furniture, Buddhist sculpture, as well as an outstanding collection of Chinese Bencharong porcelain. New England Auctions info@newenglandauctions.com
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- Lot Description
China Trade Silver, Canton, ca. early 19th century. Includes a rectangular snuff box with canted corners, mounted all over with panels of mother-of-pearl secured by reeded rims to the flanged, hinged lid; the panels carved in low relief, on the lid with a figure on a terrace, with trees and pavilions surrounding a shield-shaped reserve; the sides with floral carvings within beaded rectangular reserves. A nearly identical snuff box is in Alan J. Marlow, Chinese Export Silver, London, 1990, p. 79, no. 88. Together with a rectangular silver and shell snuff box, mounted all over with panels of mother-of-pearl secured by reeded rims to the flanged, hinged lid; on the lid with flowers surrounding a central rectangular reserve, with surrounding geometric borders; the sides with floral and vine carving. Together with a silver and shell toothpick case, rectangular shape with canted corners, mounted all over with mother-of-pearl panels secured by reeded rims to the flanged, hinged lid; with a thumb piece; the mother of pearl panels carved with low relief flowers, the lid with a central reserve containing the engraved script monogram JSG; the bottom engraved with the signature J. Gould; the interior with fabric liner. A toothpick case of closely related form is in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, illustrated in Christina H. Nelson, Directly From China - Export Goods for the American Market, 1784-1930, 1985, p. 55; and another in Jean Gordon Lee, Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844, 1984, p. 203.
Snuff box: L 2-1/2 in. W 1-1/2 in.
Silver and shell snuff box: L 2-1/8 in. W 1-1/4 in.
Toothpick case: L 2-7/8 in. W 1/16 in.
Condition: No damage noted.
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