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The colourful stones are set within gold cells, a technique known as zellenmosaik. The ‘pearls’ on this box are actually simulated using stone. Neuber used tapered rods of rock crystal hollowed out on the underside and filled with a silver substance. The final effect is close to the lustre of real pearls.\n\nWhilst the box was probably made in Dresden around 1780, the miniature may have been painted up to five years earlier, probably by Nicolas Claude Vassal (active 1766-79) in Paris.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver,  mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996. 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Important Gold Boxes. Sale, Christie's, Geneva, lot. 83, 10 May 1983. Acquired by Arthur Gilbert from Garrard & Co, London, 1987.\r\n\r\nWhilst the box was probably made in Dresden around 1780, the miniature may have been painted up to five years earlier, probably by Nicolas Claude Vassal (active 1766-79) in Paris.\r\n\r\nEugen Gutmann built a collection of gold and silver treasures, catalogued in 1912 as including this box. After his death the bulk of the collection went to his son, Friedrich (1886 - 1944) in the Netherlands. From 1940, Nazi art dealers repeatedly descended upon the Gutmanns' home. In 1942 they compelled Friedrich to send his father's collection to Munich. In 1943, Friedrich and his wife Louise (1892 - 1944) were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and they were murdered. Apart from the 1912 catalogue, there are no records of this snuffbox until it reappeared on the art market in 1983.\r\n\r\nThis object formed part of the V&A's special provenance display 'Concealed Histories: Uncovering the Story of Nazi Looting' (December 2019 - June 2021)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"A rectangular, gold-mounted hardstone snuffbox, the cover set with an enamel miniature of a young lady.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Holzhausen, Walter. <u>Johann Christian Neuber</u>, Dresden, 1935, fig. 20."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Truman, Charles.<u>The Gilbert collection of gold boxes</u>, Vol. I. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1991, cat. no. 79, pp. 232-3.  ISBN.0875871623"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Coffin, Sarah and Bodo Hofstetter. <u>Portrait Miniatures in Enamel</u>. 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