PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF
THE LATE LUCIENNE ARPELS
SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS
A LOUIS-PHILIPPE GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY LOUIS-FRANÇOIS TRONQUOY, MARKED, PARIS, CIRCA 1840
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A LOUIS-PHILIPPE GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Louis-François Tronquoy, marked, Paris, circa 1840
Rectangular box with slightly bombé sides, all over engraved with a diaper pattern enclosing dots on a horizontally reeded guilloché ground, the cover centred by a burnished gold cartouche with rocaille border, slightly raised plain thumbpiece
58 mm. (2¼ in.) wide
(37 gr.)
by Louis-François Tronquoy, marked, Paris, circa 1840
Rectangular box with slightly bombé sides, all over engraved with a diaper pattern enclosing dots on a horizontally reeded guilloché ground, the cover centred by a burnished gold cartouche with rocaille border, slightly raised plain thumbpiece
58 mm. (2¼ in.) wide
(37 gr.)