Description
Small enamel decorative box, silver, enameled. On a flat base, cylindrical body with plug-in lid. The wall surrounded by delicate polychrome scattered flowers over a translucent, ice-grey enameled and wavy engine-turned ground. The openwork monogram "FJ" under the archducal crown of Franz Joseph of Austria-Tuscany and Archduke of Austria (1905 - 1975) applied to the lid. Marked by the mark of the master Johann Souval (active ca. 1915). Gilt interior. Weight approx. 25 g. H. 3,4 cm. D. 2.6 cm. Cf. photograph of the hallmark in the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, inv. no. PZ 6552. Provenance: from a private collection in Brandenburg. Sold at Dorotheum Vienna, 26.04.2006, auction Kaiserhaus, lot 201. A very fine small silver enamelled box with monogram of Franz Joseph of Austria-Tuscany and Archduke of Austria (1905 - 1975) by Johann Souval (active around approx. 1915). Gilt inside. Assay and master's mark. Austria. Vienna. Around 1920.
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Small enamel decorative box, silver, enameled. On a flat base, cylindrical body with plug-in lid. The wall surrounded by delicate polychrome scattered flowers over a translucent, ice-grey enameled and wavy engine-turned ground. The openwork monogram "FJ" under the archducal crown of Franz Joseph of Austria-Tuscany and Archduke of Austria (1905 - 1975) applied to the lid. Marked by the mark of the master Johann Souval (active ca. 1915). Gilt interior. Weight approx. 25 g. H. 3,4 cm. D. 2.6 cm. Cf. photograph of the hallmark in the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, inv. no. PZ 6552. Provenance: from a private collection in Brandenburg. Sold at Dorotheum Vienna, 26.04.2006, auction Kaiserhaus, lot 201. A very fine small silver enamelled box with monogram of Franz Joseph of Austria-Tuscany and Archduke of Austria (1905 - 1975) by Johann Souval (active around approx. 1915). Gilt inside. Assay and master's mark. Austria. Vienna. Around 1920.
