A LOUIS XV OVAL VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX, chased and engraved on each side with elongated flowerheads flaked by rosettes in entwined borders on an engraved scale ground, with ribbon-tied laurel borders, by Louis Roucel, Paris, 1765-66, with the charge and décharge of Jean-Jacques Prevost

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A LOUIS XV OVAL VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX, chased and engraved on each side with elongated flowerheads flaked by rosettes in entwined borders on an engraved scale ground, with ribbon-tied laurel borders, by Louis Roucel, Paris, 1765-66, with the charge and décharge of Jean-Jacques Prevost
3½in. (8.9cm.) long

Lot Essay

Louis Roucel is recorded at quai de l'Horloge in 1764 and listed in July 1766 at Quai des Morfondus. Before this he was with Ducrollay at place Dauphine.

A note with this box gives details of the provenance, from Henry 3rd Duke of Grafton, an ancestor of the present owner.

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