A French Gothic Revival enamelled gold Snuff-Box

BY MOYSE-JACQUES DECOR, MARKED, PARIS, 1833-1838

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A French Gothic Revival enamelled gold Snuff-Box
by Moyse-Jacques Decor, marked, Paris, 1833-1838
Rectangular box with baluster sides, the cover divided by white enamelled Gothic towers, the compartments in the centre and at the outsides inset with a rectangular gold plaque with arched top boldly chased with trophies of War on a frosted ground, flanking two taille d'épargne gold trees on black enamel grounds, the base centred by a rectangular reserve depicting gold zig-zags on a black enamelled ground, within a gold border, framed by a white wavy band, the convex sides with taille d'épargne stylised acanthus leaves on a black enamel ground divided by gold leaves on a white enamel ground, slightly raised gold thumbpiece
74 mm. (2 7/8 in.) wide

Lot Essay

French gold snuff-boxes "à la Cathédrale" are rare, and a similar specimen is illustrated in A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth-Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, colour pl. 425 and 426. For another box by Moyse-Jacques Decor, see lot 237.

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