Lot 20
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A SWISS FOUR-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
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A SWISS FOUR-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX

MAKER 'DMC' A CROWN ABOVE, MARKED, GENEVA, CIRCA 1780

Details
A SWISS FOUR-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
maker 'DMC' a crown above, marked, Geneva, circa 1780
Oval box, the cover, sides and base centred by oval matted gold reserves chased with altars of love, flowers and trophies of music, adorned with trophies of love, music, harvest and gardening hung from ribbons and laurel festoons, all on horizontally reeded panels, the matted gold borders chased with intertwined flutes enclosing laurel and rosettes, bright-cut rims
2 9/16 in. (65 mm.) wide
3 oz. (86 gr.)
Provenance
Ole Olsen; Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, February 1944, lot 522.
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Lot Essay

Another box by this unidentified goldsmith is in the Louvre, illustrated in S. Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 544, pp. 347 and 442, and a similar box by him was sold Christie's, London, 28 May 2002, lot 254.

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