Iserlohn tobacco box, brass, embossed relief decoration. The hinged lid depicts the standing figure of Frederick the Great, with an equestrian battle in the background. On the underside an antique figure staffage below inscribed "So said wise Solomon divide the living child into two parts, ah my lord give her the child alive, said the king she is the right mother". Reported; h. 3.5 cm. 16 cm x 4.5 cm. Cf. Dossmann, fig. 55 (Ke IV. 1). A German brass snuff box. Rubbed. German. Iserlohn. Johann Adolf Keppelmann. Circa 1760.

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