A FRENCH GOLD AND ENAMEL BOÎTE-À-PORTRAIT

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A FRENCH GOLD AND ENAMEL BOÎTE-À-PORTRAIT
by Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette, Paris, circa 1798, the flange engraved "Vachette Bij.er à Paris"

Rectangular box, the cover, sides and base decorated with rectangular panels of an engine-turned pattern of interwoven concentric circles, framed by blue-enamelled borders of engraved trailing foliage and flowerheads, each corner with an anthemion, the cover centered by a carved white glass paste profile of Cambacérès in state uniform decorated with various orders, signed on the truncation "LELIEVRE", on a black ground, bordered by a blue enamel band -- 81 mm wide.

Lot Essay

Lelièvre, a Parisian gem-carver, exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1800 and 1810; Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker (Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig, 1929, vol. XXIII, p. 8) mention a cameo portrait by his hand depicting Cambacérès as Second Consul, exhibited in the Salon of 1800.

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