SILVER TABATIERE, oblong shape, molded edges. - Lot 100

SILVER TABATIERE, oblong shape, molded edges. Engraved on each side with captioned scenes of the Siege and Liberation of Leiden in 1574 during the Eighty Years' War. The sides engraved with the iconographic repertoire of Leiden siege coins in a scroll and foliage surround. The interior engraved with captioned portraits of William IV of Orange-Nassau (1711-1751) Stathouder General of the United Provinces and his wife Anne of Hanover (1709-1759). Master goldsmith : Leendert BEEKHUIS, Master in 1731 Dutch work, Amsterdam 1743. Length: 12.4 cm; Width: 6.1 cm; Height: 3.7 cm. Weight : 204 g. For a snuffbox by the same silversmith: BWG WTTEWAALL, Nederlands Klein Zilver , Abcoude, 2003, pp. 243-244, ill. 755 - Christie's sale December 10, 2007, Lot 298.