Lot 34: A FINE GEORGE III GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE NECESSAIRE**

London, circa 1770, workshop of James Cox The rectangular casket raised on four rocaille feet, the truncated pyramidal top applied with five rocaille-clad urns, the striated mauve agate panels mounted in a gold cagework chased with floral swags and scrolls, the front panel also decorated with a bird and a dog, opening to a drawer containing a French gold and enamelled thimble, four glass scent-bottles with gold caps, a magnifying glass, scissors, an ivory tablet, a pencil, a folding knife, a small mirror, a key, two small spoons, and a matching agate lunette de jalousie, apparently unmarked The casket 6in. (15.2cm.) high (2) PROVENANCE Christie's, Geneva, May 25-26, 1993, lot 95 NOTES A similar necessaire by Cox is in the collection at Waddesdon Manor, illustrated in Serge Grandjean, et al., The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes, 1975, no. 21, pp. 54-55.