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GENEVA, CIRCA 1780, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING A PARISIAN MAKER'S MARK, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD AND ANOTHER INDISTINCT MARK
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A SWISS ENAMELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH HARDSTONES AND AN ENAMEL MINIATURE
GENEVA, CIRCA 1780, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING A PARISIAN MAKER'S MARK, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD AND ANOTHER INDISTINCT MARK
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with translucent green enamelled panels of engine-turned scalework, the cover centred by an oval enamel plaque painted en grisaille with a young lady in classical attire crowning a herm of Venus with playful putti and a pair of doves below, within a beaded gold border flanked by two brown moss agate tondi in fluted borders, the four-colour gold mounts decorated with a wavescroll band interspersed by flowers and foliage, the sides and base centred by oval matted vari-colour gold reserves chased with trophies of love, music, and harvest alternating with circular brown moss-agate panels framed by flutes, bright-cut gold rims
2 5/8 in. (67 mm.) wide
GENEVA, CIRCA 1780, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING A PARISIAN MAKER'S MARK, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD AND ANOTHER INDISTINCT MARK
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with translucent green enamelled panels of engine-turned scalework, the cover centred by an oval enamel plaque painted en grisaille with a young lady in classical attire crowning a herm of Venus with playful putti and a pair of doves below, within a beaded gold border flanked by two brown moss agate tondi in fluted borders, the four-colour gold mounts decorated with a wavescroll band interspersed by flowers and foliage, the sides and base centred by oval matted vari-colour gold reserves chased with trophies of love, music, and harvest alternating with circular brown moss-agate panels framed by flutes, bright-cut gold rims
2 5/8 in. (67 mm.) wide
Provenance
Christie's, London, 25 May 2004, lot 66.
Brought to you by
Matilda Burn
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