Details
A MENNECY SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1755, THE MOUNTS PARIS 1755, WITH THE CHARGE AND DÉCHARGE OF JULIEN BERTHE, 1750-56
Modelled as a brown monkey in a red-striped shirt with blue collar and holding a yellow fruit, reclining on a grassy mound base, the cover moulded and painted inside and out with flowering branches (minute chip to one ear)--2¾in. (7cm.) wide
CIRCA 1755, THE MOUNTS PARIS 1755, WITH THE CHARGE AND DÉCHARGE OF JULIEN BERTHE, 1750-56
Modelled as a brown monkey in a red-striped shirt with blue collar and holding a yellow fruit, reclining on a grassy mound base, the cover moulded and painted inside and out with flowering branches (minute chip to one ear)--2¾in. (7cm.) wide
Provenance
O'Byrne Collection, no. 635, sale Christie's London