Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 289

FÊTE DU CANTON DE ZUG Swiss. Made circa 1820. Fine and rare, papier mache snuff box with verre eglomise painted miniature of a couple in the costume of the fête de canton de Zug.

C. Two-body, circular, papier mache, the lid set with a semierotic polychrome painted verre eglomise miniature of a young couple in the costume of the fête of the canton of Zug (Switzerland), the gentleman helping the lady with the top of her dress. Diam. 93 mm.