Lot Essay
This is a rare specimen of the revival of the piqu technique popular in Italy and France during the second quarter of the 18th Century.
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BY CARL HELFRIED BARB, MARKED, CIRCA 1830/40
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A RUSSIAN GOLD AND PIQU COMPOSITION SNUFF-BOX
by Carl Helfried Barb, marked, circa 1830/40
Oval box, the cover inset with a slightly domed flecked brown composition plaque decorated with a vase of flowers motif in gold piqu point within a husk, scroll and flowerhead border in the same technique, the base inset with a similarly bordered flat composition plaque, the concave gold sides engraved with scrolling foliage in a pointill technique echoing piqu point, reeded rims, pierced foliate four-colour gold thumbpiece
3.3/8 in. (85 mm.) wide
by Carl Helfried Barb, marked, circa 1830/40
Oval box, the cover inset with a slightly domed flecked brown composition plaque decorated with a vase of flowers motif in gold piqu point within a husk, scroll and flowerhead border in the same technique, the base inset with a similarly bordered flat composition plaque, the concave gold sides engraved with scrolling foliage in a pointill technique echoing piqu point, reeded rims, pierced foliate four-colour gold thumbpiece
3.3/8 in. (85 mm.) wide