FROM THE ESTATE OF A DANISH LADY
A LOUIS XV MINIATURES-SET GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Details
A LOUIS XV MINIATURES-SET GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Jean-Baptiste Bertin, Paris 1767/1768, with the charge and discharge of Jean-Jacques Prevost
Rectangular box, the cover set with a miniature representing a French field-marshal holding the marshal's baton, with his wife, leaning on a parapet inscribed STADIUM CUM LUCE CUCURRIT, the front and rear walls depicting two other couples, the side walls painted with a boy holding a globe, and a lady in nocturnal landscape; the base set with interwoven blond and brown hair under glass; the cage-mounts chased with ovoids and leaves -- 6.8 m wide
by Jean-Baptiste Bertin, Paris 1767/1768, with the charge and discharge of Jean-Jacques Prevost
Rectangular box, the cover set with a miniature representing a French field-marshal holding the marshal's baton, with his wife, leaning on a parapet inscribed STADIUM CUM LUCE CUCURRIT, the front and rear walls depicting two other couples, the side walls painted with a boy holding a globe, and a lady in nocturnal landscape; the base set with interwoven blond and brown hair under glass; the cage-mounts chased with ovoids and leaves -- 6.8 m wide
Provenance
Sir A. Chester Beatty Collection, part II sold Sotheby's London, 17 June 1963, lot 296
Exhibited
British Antique Dealers Exhibition, London 1948, cat. nr 325