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A SWISS GOLD AND ENAMEL MUSICAL SNUFF-BOX,
by André Magnin, Geneva, circa 1820
Rectangular gold box with rounded corners, the cover, base and sides with floating engine-turning in rectangular panels, the cover centered by a rectangular cartouche with cut corners containing a vase, a harp, a cornet, and a lute in blue champlevé enamel on a sablé ground, the engine-turned panels surrounded by sablé bands with gold garlands, blue enamelled flowerheads, and pine-cones in the corners -- 82 mm wide
by André Magnin, Geneva, circa 1820
Rectangular gold box with rounded corners, the cover, base and sides with floating engine-turning in rectangular panels, the cover centered by a rectangular cartouche with cut corners containing a vase, a harp, a cornet, and a lute in blue champlevé enamel on a sablé ground, the engine-turned panels surrounded by sablé bands with gold garlands, blue enamelled flowerheads, and pine-cones in the corners -- 82 mm wide