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A FRENCH LOUIS-PHILIPPE ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Louis-François Tronquoy, Paris 1840-1871
Rectangular box, the cover engraved with interwoven bands of scrolling foliage and geometrical patterns around a cartouche-shaped plain gold reserve, on an opaque sky-blue enamel ground, the base and sides with wavy engine-turning forming a pattern of floating lozenges, the edges of the sides and the border of the base engraved with scrolls and also parcel-enamelled in opaque sky-blue -- 80 mm wide, minimal chips
by Louis-François Tronquoy, Paris 1840-1871
Rectangular box, the cover engraved with interwoven bands of scrolling foliage and geometrical patterns around a cartouche-shaped plain gold reserve, on an opaque sky-blue enamel ground, the base and sides with wavy engine-turning forming a pattern of floating lozenges, the edges of the sides and the border of the base engraved with scrolls and also parcel-enamelled in opaque sky-blue -- 80 mm wide, minimal chips