A LOUIS XVI GOLD SEALING-WAX CASE

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A LOUIS XVI GOLD SEALING-WAX CASE
by Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Choconain-Delaunay, Paris, 1786, with the charge and discharge of Henry Clavel

Slightly tapering étui-à-cire of flattened cylindrical section, cover and base with horizontally reeded guilloché scattered with pellets, the borders chased with foliage on a matted ground, the cover topped by a rosette, the base engraved with the initials "LM" on a reeded ground -- 118 mm high.
(38 gr.)

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