AN IMPORTANT LOUIS XV OBLONG GOLD AND GEM SET SNUFF-BOX, the hinged cover, sides and base chased and engraved with pastoral scenes in the style of Watteau, each within scroll and foliage borders, with applied emerald and diamond thumbpiece, by Jean Ducrollay, Paris, 1755-7, with the charge and décharge of Julien Berthe

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AN IMPORTANT LOUIS XV OBLONG GOLD AND GEM SET SNUFF-BOX, the hinged cover, sides and base chased and engraved with pastoral scenes in the style of Watteau, each within scroll and foliage borders, with applied emerald and diamond thumbpiece, by Jean Ducrollay, Paris, 1755-7, with the charge and décharge of Julien Berthe
3 3/8in. (8 1/2cm.) long

Lot Essay

The decoration on this box is redolent of designs by Pasquier-Rémi Mondon, chef d'atelier to Ducrollay (cf. C. Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, (Los Angeles, 1991) pp.11-14)

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