拍品 27
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A SWISS OCTAGONAL GOLD SNUFF-BOX, the cover chased and engraved with a classical alegory of music with a putti blowing a trumpet before a female holding a score of music, in octagonal reeded border against an engraved chequered ground with a ring-punched rim, the base with similarly engraved rim and ground with a centreal engine-turned lozenge, the sides engine-turned within stylised foliate borders, by Georges Rémond et compagnie, Geneva, circa 1805

細節
A SWISS OCTAGONAL GOLD SNUFF-BOX, the cover chased and engraved with a classical alegory of music with a putti blowing a trumpet before a female holding a score of music, in octagonal reeded border against an engraved chequered ground with a ring-punched rim, the base with similarly engraved rim and ground with a centreal engine-turned lozenge, the sides engine-turned within stylised foliate borders, by Georges Rémond et compagnie, Geneva, circa 1805
3¼in. (8.1cm.)

拍品專文

Georges Rémond, a distinguished gold box maker, worked between 1783 and about 1820 and is one of the few Geneva goldsmiths whose marks are recorded.