A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, PARIS, CIRCA 1785

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A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, PARIS, CIRCA 1785
oval box, the cover centred with an enamel plaque depicting two ladies in a landscape with a putto in the foreground, within a frosted gold frame chased with translucent green enamel foliage, with similar outer border set at intervals with opaque white enamel beads and red enamel flowerheads, the sides and base with panels of translucent dark-blue enamel on an engine-turned ground
3? in. (80 mm.) wide
Provenance
Christie's, Geneva, 8 May 1979, lot 91.

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