Acknowledgements 6
Foreword 7
Introduction 9
1 Jewellery, princes and treasuries in the High Renaissance 11
The gold snuff-box in the eighteenth century 18
2 The production and acquisition of Jewellery and treasury
pieces in the High Renaissance 22
The production of gold boxes in the eighteenth century 27
The Fabergé workshops 34
3 Techniques of the jewellergoldsmith in the High Renaissance 38
Techniques of the gold box makers 50
4 The collecting of jewellery 55
The collecting of gold boxes 58
Catalogue 63
Jewellery and treasury pieces 65
Gold boxes 165
French gold boxes 166
Gold boxes bearing marks imitating those used in France 248
Gold boxes from other European countries 264
Objets de vertu from the workshops of Carl Fabergé
and other Russian goldsmiths 311
Bibliography 372
Index of Marks 376
General Index 381
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