Fine tobacco and snuff boxes in wood, bronze, brass, silver, steel, horn, tortoiseshell and papier-maché, the property of Philip A.S. Phillips, Esq., (decd.), author of John Obrisset, etc. (sold by order of the executors)
Publisher: Sotheby's
Published: 1934
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: Sale code: APIS.

Comprising English and foreign snuff boxes inset with medallions by Cannois, Garreau, Paroy, Galle, Morel, Bureau, Ribourt, Webb, Gayrard, Cahier, Lafitte, Pingo, Montigny, Halliday, Wyon and others. Snuff boxes in horn, tortoiseshell and wood by Baudonin, Dixon, Westwood, Pichard, Andrieu, Bradwell, John Osborn, Wilson and others. The fine and interesting collection of pressed horn and silver-mounted boxes by John Obrisset and his contemporaries Samuel Lambelet, Isaac Pratt and F. Baker, including the rare series with the arms of Sir Francis Drake, portraits boxes of James I, Charles I and Henrietta Maria, William III and Mary, Queen Anne, George I, George II and George III, Peter the Great, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and many interesting boxes with historical, biblical, mythological and sporting subjects. The choice collection of papier-mache painted boxes by Samuel Raven, Stobwasser, Stockmann, Evers, Meyer and Wreid, Kaegelius and others, mostly in brilliant state and with subjexts after the following painters: Hogarth, Harlow, Wheatley, Wilkie, Lawrence, Bunbury, Clennell, Sharp, Gerard Dou, Berghem, Teniers, Ostade, Wouverman, Huet Villiers, Rubens and many others, including in all about eight artists. Many of the horn boxes illustrated in the standard work on John Obrisset by the late owner, and the papier-maché boxes in articles contributed by him to the Connoisseur on Samuel Raven, Stobwasser and Stockmann.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: july 4, 1934.