A silver snuff box, a cigarette case and another snuff box


Early to late 19th centuryComprising: a rectangular box and cover with repoussé worked lid and base decorated with floral motifs, stamped MK; an oval boat-form box with a hinged lid incised with a dragon and a monogrammed crest; a repoussé cigarette case decorated with birds and flowers.The largest: 12cm (4 3/4in) wide (3).
|For three similar silver snuff boxes, dated 18th and early 19th century, and a brief discussion on the unknown maker 'MK', see the John Sparks exhibition catalogue, A.J. Marlowe, Chinese Export Silver, London 1990, p. 45, no. 29, 33 & 90.