Lot Essay
The enamel miniature on the lid, probably painted in the workshop of Jean Coteau, is taken from Mathieu's engraving of 1786 after Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Le Serment d'Amour.
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BY PIERRE-CLAUDE POTTIER (FL. 1778-1806), MARKED, PARIS, 1789, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS KALENDRIN
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A LOUIS XVI ENAMEL AND GOLD BONBONNIÈRE
by Pierre-Claude Pottier (fl. 1778-1806), marked, Paris, 1789, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-François Kalendrin
Circular box, the independent cover set with an enamel miniature depicting a couple dancing and embracing before a stone tablet inscribed 'SERMENT D'AIMER TOUTE LA VIE' held by two putti, on a radiating translucent blue enamelled guilloché coin pattern, with gold paillon swag frame, within white enamel band, the sides with similar blue enamel decorated with flowers and birds, the base set with an enamel tondo painted with Cupid and a dove on a translucent blue enamelled ground engine-turned with an off-centre sunburst radiating coin pattern with white enamel surround, the slightly raised gold mounts stamped with stylised acanthus
2.15/16 in. (75 mm.) diam.
by Pierre-Claude Pottier (fl. 1778-1806), marked, Paris, 1789, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-François Kalendrin
Circular box, the independent cover set with an enamel miniature depicting a couple dancing and embracing before a stone tablet inscribed 'SERMENT D'AIMER TOUTE LA VIE' held by two putti, on a radiating translucent blue enamelled guilloché coin pattern, with gold paillon swag frame, within white enamel band, the sides with similar blue enamel decorated with flowers and birds, the base set with an enamel tondo painted with Cupid and a dove on a translucent blue enamelled ground engine-turned with an off-centre sunburst radiating coin pattern with white enamel surround, the slightly raised gold mounts stamped with stylised acanthus
2.15/16 in. (75 mm.) diam.