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GENEVA, CIRCA 1770/1780, BEARING PRESTIGE MARKS INCLUDING ONE RESEMBLING THE CHARGE OF ELOY BRICHARD
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A SWISS VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX WITH JEWELLED THUMBPIECE
Geneva, circa 1770/1780, bearing prestige marks including one resembling the charge of Eloy Brichard
Rectangular box, the lid, four sides and base engraved with scrolling cartouches of a spider's web of concentric alternating reeded and polished gold zig-zags framed by fluted c-scrolls, the lid chased in four-colour gold with a nude lady leaning on a rock with flower vase, crowning a putto with another putto hovering above and charging his bow, the four sides and base similarly chased with trophies of love, music and with flowers, applied with a foliate silver-mounted old-mine cut diamond thumbpiece
2 7/16 in. (61 mm.) wide
Geneva, circa 1770/1780, bearing prestige marks including one resembling the charge of Eloy Brichard
Rectangular box, the lid, four sides and base engraved with scrolling cartouches of a spider's web of concentric alternating reeded and polished gold zig-zags framed by fluted c-scrolls, the lid chased in four-colour gold with a nude lady leaning on a rock with flower vase, crowning a putto with another putto hovering above and charging his bow, the four sides and base similarly chased with trophies of love, music and with flowers, applied with a foliate silver-mounted old-mine cut diamond thumbpiece
2 7/16 in. (61 mm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Ball & Graupe, Berlin, 7-8 May 1928, lot 243 (erroneously as probably Grenoble, circa 1750).
Anonymous sale; Lempertz, Cologne, sale 440, 28 April 1954, lot 229 (erroneously as French, possibly Grenoble, circa 1750).
Ivan B. Hart Collection, no. 304.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 17 May 1990, lot 94 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-187).
Anonymous sale; Lempertz, Cologne, sale 440, 28 April 1954, lot 229 (erroneously as French, possibly Grenoble, circa 1750).
Ivan B. Hart Collection, no. 304.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 17 May 1990, lot 94 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-187).
Special notice
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