A SWISS GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX

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A SWISS GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX
maker "LFT", Geneva, circa 1785/1790, bearing prestige marks including a rosette imitating the charge of Julien Alaterre, a hen's head imitating the discharge of Julien Berthe and a date-letter "K"

Oval box, the cover, sides and base with panels of a translucent green enamelled guilloché coin pattern with scattered pellets enamelled in red, the cover centered by an oval enamel plaque depicting a couple of young lovers in antique costumes reclining in a landscape, within a frame of opalescent and green enamel beads, the lid, sides and base similarly bordered -- 89 mm wide.

Lot Essay

Nine gold boxes by this talented Genevan goldsmith, bearing the same prestige marks as the present box, are in the Louvre (see Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, nrs 566-574). For another enamelled snuff-box by him, with identical marks, see lot 9.

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