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POSSIBLY SWISS
Details
A LOUIS XVI-STYLE JEWELLED AND SPLIT-PEARL SET ENAMELLED GOLD CARNET-DE-BAL
possibly Swiss
Slightly tapering rectangular etui-à-tablettes with arched top, of oval section, engraved overall with a diaperwork guilloché pattern covered with translucent strawberry rose enamel studded with diamond 'stars', within split-pearl set borders, obverse and reverse of cover applied with silver-mounted rose-cut diamond inscription SOUVENIR D'AMITIE within rose-cut diamond borders, the obverse of the base centred with an oval miniature painted with a Masonic subject on a blue glass panel set on an engine-turned ground, within a rose-cut diamond border, the reverse with identically framed similar plaque inscribed 'DU 14eme NOVEMBRE 1792 ' in seed pearls; wood pencil with parcel-enamelled gold cap, ear-spoon and four-leaved tablets inside
35/8 in. (93 mm.) high
possibly Swiss
Slightly tapering rectangular etui-à-tablettes with arched top, of oval section, engraved overall with a diaperwork guilloché pattern covered with translucent strawberry rose enamel studded with diamond 'stars', within split-pearl set borders, obverse and reverse of cover applied with silver-mounted rose-cut diamond inscription SOUVENIR D'AMITIE within rose-cut diamond borders, the obverse of the base centred with an oval miniature painted with a Masonic subject on a blue glass panel set on an engine-turned ground, within a rose-cut diamond border, the reverse with identically framed similar plaque inscribed 'DU 14
35/8 in. (93 mm.) high
Provenance
Mr Bernard-Franck (1848-1924), Paris.
Sold by the latter to J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York, no. 2500.
Given by the latter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. P.M. 3655.
Sotheby's, New York, 27 October 1976, lot 531.
Sold by the latter to J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York, no. 2500.
Given by the latter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. P.M. 3655.
Sotheby's, New York, 27 October 1976, lot 531.
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