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The accolé coat-of-arms indicate that the wife of the couple was of the Coquebert family of Champagne and Paris.
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A LOUIS XVI TWO-COLOURED GOLD SEALING-WAX CASE
Paris, 1774/1775, maker's mark indistinct, with the charge and discharge of Julien Alaterre, and the export discharge of Henry Clavel
Slightly tapering étui-à-cire of flattened cylindrical section, the cover and base chased with flutes and hung with laurel swags bordered by acanthus, the top with a patera, the base engraved with an accolé coat-of-arms beneath a coronet -- 120 mm high.
(49 gr.)
Paris, 1774/1775, maker's mark indistinct, with the charge and discharge of Julien Alaterre, and the export discharge of Henry Clavel
Slightly tapering étui-à-cire of flattened cylindrical section, the cover and base chased with flutes and hung with laurel swags bordered by acanthus, the top with a patera, the base engraved with an accolé coat-of-arms beneath a coronet -- 120 mm high.
(49 gr.)