Japanese Lacquer Snuff-Box
Pierre-Francois Drais
- Art Funded
- 1956
- Dimensions
- 8 cm
- Art Fund grant
- £1,200 (Total: £1,400)
- Vendor
- Sotheby's
Provenance
Colonel T. R. Gordon-Duff, sold at Sotheby's 9/7/1956 to Messrs. S.J.Phillips for £1,400 who generously offered to allow the Museum to acquire the box for £1,200 and the firm would subscribe the other £200.
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