A gold snuff box
A gold snuff box, of cartouche section, the slightly raised matted gold cover boldly chased and embossed with…
A gold needle case
Shaped as a Corinthian column, the square plinth on reeded stepped base, on each side applied with a stylised rosette, the central section partially fluted and stop-channelled and raised on reeded and waisted scotia, the upper section with acanthus leaves below a voluted capital and square temple-shaped knob finial.
Cornelis Bockx was born in Middelburg on 12/04/1750. He was apprenticed under Jan van Batenburgh. He was registered as a silversmith in the Middelburg guild from 1777 until 1812.
Cornelis married twice: his first wife Cornelia Cats died aged 31 in Middelburg 1795; in May 1796 he married a second time Cornelia Johanna Kooymans. Cornelis Bockx died in Middelburg aged 69, in 1820. He manufactured small silver work, a.o. purse frames, bible claps, cases (knipkokers), belt hooks, an altar bell.
Provenance
Private collection, Netherlands
Literature
J.W.M. Ambaum, Nederlands Goud, tentoonstelling ter gelegenheid van het 25-jarig bestaan van het Nederlandse Goud- en Zilvermuseum, Utrecht, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, 1963, n° 94, p. 29, pl. 38
Exhibitions
Nederlands goud: tentoonstelling ter gelegenheid van het 25-jarig bestaan van het Nederlands Goud- en Zilvermuseum, Utrecht, n° 94
