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Geneva, Nov 14, 2009

LOT 87

The Cumaean Sibyl French. Made circa 1820. Fine and rare, tortoiseshell and burr-wood snuff box set with a portrait miniature of the Cumaean Sibyl.

C. Two-body, circular, burr wood with tortoiseshell banding, the lid set with a finely painted watercolour miniature of the Cumaean Sibyl in a landscape, the interior lined with tortoiseshell. Dim. 90 x 30 mm. From the Collection of an Italian Gentleman