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| Keywords: English - Double Snuffbox with Coat of Arms - Walters 57102.jpg This double snuffbox has hinged covers of chiselled gold; an oblong pouch shape; a flattened section The body is plain with reeded moulding The covers form a panel divided in the center with chiselled decoration in low relief on sanded ground At the top a ducal coronet surmounting curved vertical bands arranged in pairs with designs of trellis birds under a baldachin masks with festoons of drapery busts of a woman or a bearded man in a medallion all divided by swept lines terminating in acanthus foliage with heads of an eagle or a dragon The exterior of the base engraved with an elaborate heraldic achievement a shield-of-arms The coat-of-arms is that of James first duke of Chandos 1673-1744 ca 1725 gold cm 1 5 6 6 accession number 57 102 20793 James Brydges 9th Baron Chandos 1st Earl of Carnarvon 1st Duke of Chandos 1674-1744 England by commission Henry Brydges 2nd Duke of Chandos 1708-1771 England by inheritance James Brydges 3rd Duke of Chandos 1731-1789 England by inheritance Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 5th Viscount Cobham 1776-1839 England by inheritance Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 6th Viscount Cobham 1797-1861 England by inheritance Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 7th Viscount Cobham 1823-1889 England by inheritance Mary Temple-Gore-Langton Baroness Kinloss 1852-1944 Stowe England by inheritance Sale Christie's London June 2 1905 no 40 Harding Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1914 Marks none Objects of Vertu Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 place of origin England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license Art of England Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Snuffboxs in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
