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GENEVA, CIRCA 1800, THE FLANGE STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NO. 73
Details
A SWISS ENAMEL AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Geneva, circa 1800, the flange struck with inventory no. 73
Rectangular flattened box with rounded corners, the cover inset with a rectangular enamel panel finely painted with a mythological scene depicting Pomona with her basket of fruit offering an apple to Fame and Cybele in a classical landscape, within a Greek key pattern gold border surrounded by a blue enamel band, the four side panels painted with black zig-zags on a translucent blue enamelled wavy guilloch ground, the base enamelled in translucent blue and black on an engine-turned fan-pattern ground within a Greek key pattern gold border
3.5/8 in. (93 mm.) wide
Geneva, circa 1800, the flange struck with inventory no. 73
Rectangular flattened box with rounded corners, the cover inset with a rectangular enamel panel finely painted with a mythological scene depicting Pomona with her basket of fruit offering an apple to Fame and Cybele in a classical landscape, within a Greek key pattern gold border surrounded by a blue enamel band, the four side panels painted with black zig-zags on a translucent blue enamelled wavy guilloch ground, the base enamelled in translucent blue and black on an engine-turned fan-pattern ground within a Greek key pattern gold border
3.5/8 in. (93 mm.) wide
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1973, lot 87 (2,500 to W. C. Casebourne).