A Louis XV style enamelled two-colour gold Snuff-Box

BEARING PRESTIGE MARKS IMITATING THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE AND THE FIRST COUNTER-MARK OF HENRY CLAVEL

Details

A Louis XV style enamelled two-colour gold Snuff-Box
bearing prestige marks imitating the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache and the first counter-mark of Henry Clavel
Oval box, the lid, four side panels and base enamelled en plein with mythological scenes, bordered by matted bands chased with scrolls, flowerheads and foliage in two-colour gold, the four side pilasters similarly adorned with trophies of Music, Love and Painting suspended from ribbon-ties and interspersed with flowers and leaves
68 mm. (2 5/8 in.) wide

Lot Essay

The enamelled panels depict, on the cover, Diana and Endymion, and on the base and sides, scenes with Cupid and Venus and Bacchanalia. The two sleeping Bacchants spied by two Satyrs, on the base, is a variant after Boucher's painting of 1758, and Venus disarming Cupid, on the rear side, is a variant after Boucher's version of 1749, now in the Louvre. Amour désarmé, on the left hand side panel, is after a print by Fessard of 1761 after an original by Boucher formerly in the collection of the Marquise de Pompadour.

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