Lot Essay
For another enamelled gold box by Sené & Detalla made for export to the Ottoman court in Constantinople, see C. Trumann, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Volume Two, London, 1999, p. 74, no. 45.
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BY SENÉ & DETALLA, MARKED, GENEVA, CIRCA 1800
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A SWISS SPLIT-PEARL SET AND JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Sené & Detalla, marked, Geneva, circa 1800
Oval box, the cover applied with three split-pearl set gold and white enamelled croissants surmounted by three matching stars with rose-cut diamond centres and a fourth matching star below, on a lobed translucent blue enamelled guilloché ground of vertical bands of zig-zag alternating with black bands, framed by scrolling white enamelled bands of taille d'épargne gold leaf garlands, separated by four blue-enamelled spandels, the sides and base enamelled with translucent royal blue on an engine-turned coin vertical pattern ground, within white enamel bands, the side panels divided by mirrored blue-enamelled croissants on black enamelled triangles
36 in. (78 mm.) wide
by Sené & Detalla, marked, Geneva, circa 1800
Oval box, the cover applied with three split-pearl set gold and white enamelled croissants surmounted by three matching stars with rose-cut diamond centres and a fourth matching star below, on a lobed translucent blue enamelled guilloché ground of vertical bands of zig-zag alternating with black bands, framed by scrolling white enamelled bands of taille d'épargne gold leaf garlands, separated by four blue-enamelled spandels, the sides and base enamelled with translucent royal blue on an engine-turned coin vertical pattern ground, within white enamel bands, the side panels divided by mirrored blue-enamelled croissants on black enamelled triangles
36 in. (78 mm.) wide
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