A ST. CLOUD SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX modelled as a swan with white feathers, a yellow beak, light-green eyes and brown eyebrows, lying on a green and iron-red nest, the cover painted with chinoiserie figures, one with a parasol on an island and the other among shrubs (very minor rubbing to base), décharge mark for Louis Robin, Paris 1738-44, circa 1740
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A ST. CLOUD SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX modelled as a swan with white feathers, a yellow beak, light-green eyes and brown eyebrows, lying on a green and iron-red nest, the cover painted with chinoiserie figures, one with a parasol on an island and the other among shrubs (very minor rubbing to base), décharge mark for Louis Robin, Paris 1738-44, circa 1740
8cm. wide
Lot Essay
Cf. a similar example sold in these Rooms, 30 June 1975, lot 30