A FRENCH RECTANGULAR GOLD SNUFF-BOX, the cover with a finely chased and engraved boar-hunting scene in high relief, under glass, signed Kirstein a Strasbourg, within an engraved flower and foliage border, the walls and base with panels of engine-turned circles, within engraved floral scroll bands, bordered by deep blue enamel, by Victoire Boizot, Paris, the interior lid with the mark of C.P. Petschler, circa 1820

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A FRENCH RECTANGULAR GOLD SNUFF-BOX, the cover with a finely chased and engraved boar-hunting scene in high relief, under glass, signed Kirstein a Strasbourg, within an engraved flower and foliage border, the walls and base with panels of engine-turned circles, within engraved floral scroll bands, bordered by deep blue enamel, by Victoire Boizot, Paris, the interior lid with the mark of C.P. Petschler, circa 1820
3 3/8in. (8.6cm.) long

Lot Essay

Jacques-Frederick Kirstenstein (born 1765) flourished during the Empire and Restoration. He was famous for vases, plaques and snuff-box tops in high and low relief. The brilliance of his work was not only in the execution, but in the variety of subjects he accomplished with seldom any duplication. He used the abbreviated signature 'Kirstein' or 'Kirsten'.
For further information on 'Kirstein' and illustrations of boxes by this artist with similar scenes see A. Maze-Sencier,Le Livre des Collectioneurs (Paris, 1885) p.208 and H. and S. Berry-Hill, Antique Gold Boxes (1960) pp.148-9 and illus. 132-4.
For a box with a plaque by Kirstein see Christie's Geneva, 25 May 1993, lot 52

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