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A LOUIS XV OCTAGONAL GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX each side enamelled in translucent blue over a guilloché ground and set with an oval grisaille miniature of Bacchus and his followers, the angles with herms, with acanthus borders, the walls with pilasters, the rim of two- colour gold chased and engraved with floral scrolls and rosettes (wear to mounts, re-enamelled), Paris, 1770-71, with the charge and décharge of Julien Alaterre, maker's mark indistinct, in red leather case

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A LOUIS XV OCTAGONAL GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX each side enamelled in translucent blue over a guilloché ground and set with an oval grisaille miniature of Bacchus and his followers, the angles with herms, with acanthus borders, the walls with pilasters, the rim of two- colour gold chased and engraved with floral scrolls and rosettes (wear to mounts, re-enamelled), Paris, 1770-71, with the charge and décharge of Julien Alaterre, maker's mark indistinct, in red leather case
3in. (7.8cm.) long

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