A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

MAKER'S MARK F J CROWNED, HANAU, CIRCA 1780, STRUCK WITH THE HANAU TOWN MARK FOR NINETEEN CARAT GOLD

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A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
MAKER'S MARK F J CROWNED, HANAU, CIRCA 1780, STRUCK WITH THE HANAU TOWN MARK FOR NINETEEN CARAT GOLD
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with panels of translucent purple enamel on an engine-turned ground stamped at intervals with pellets, within raised foliate and rope-twist gold borders set with trailing green enamel foliage and opalescent white enamel beads, the cover set with an enamel miniature depicting an altar to love
3 1/8 in. (80 mm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The initials F J cannot so far be matched to any known Hanau goldsmith. The crowned letter R mark appears to imitate the Parisian year date letter. The three marks of the present box correspond exactly to those on a box in the Louvre illustrated in S. Grandjean, Catalogue des tabatières, boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 554.

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