BY MOULINIE, BAUTTE & CIE (FL. 1804-1808), MARKED, GENEVA UNDER FRENCH OCCUPATION, WITH THE RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARK FOR GOLD, FRENCH DEPARTMENTS 1798-1809, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 339, LATER STRUCK WITH THREE FRENCH POST-1893 IMPORT MARKS FOR GOLD

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A SWISS PEARL-SET AND ENAMELLED GOLD VINAIGRETTE
BY MOULINIE, BAUTTE & CIE (FL. 1804-1808), MARKED, GENEVA UNDER FRENCH OCCUPATION, WITH THE RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARK FOR GOLD, FRENCH DEPARTMENTS 1798-1809, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 339, LATER STRUCK WITH THREE FRENCH POST-1893 IMPORT MARKS FOR GOLD
shaped triangle, the hinged cover enamelled with a chesnut and white Toy Spaniel lying on a bed of blue flowers, with split-pearl border, applied beneath the dog with split-pearl decoration in the form of stylised flowers and foliage, the sides and base with panels of translucent blue enamel on an engine-turned ground, the base with foliate chased border, the interior with hinged grille engraved with pierced diaper pattern
1½ in. (40 mm.) wide

Provenance

With Aux Vieux Paris, Paris, 1991.

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Lot Essay

Moulinié, Bautte & Cie made a series of these types of boxes. Each was shaped oval with a border of split-pearls and forget-me-not foreground but differed from each other by the animal depicted on the cover. A similar box with a lion on the cover is in the The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 1047-2008. A further example with a sheep on the cover was sold Christie's, London, 22 May 2001, lot 352. A very similar example to the present lot was sold from The Count Alarico Palmieri Collection of Dogs and Cats in Art, Christie's, London, 28 March 1996, lot 102.

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