拍品 347
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A FRENCH GOLD SNUFF BOX
A FRENCH GOLD SNUFF BOX

MARK OF VICTOIRE BOIZOT, PARIS, 1809-13

細節
A FRENCH GOLD SNUFF BOX
Mark of Victoire Boizot, Paris, 1809-13
Oblong, the hinged cover, base and sides with engine-turned diaperwork panels within blue enamel floral borders, marked on inside base with maker's mark and the post-Revolutionary unofficial standard mark for 20.5 carat gold, the bezel with restricted warranty mark for gold 1809-19 and post 1838, also marked with inventory number 117
3 3/8in. (8.6mm.)

拍品專文

Victoire Boizot, the widow of Joseph-Étienne Blerzy, registered a mark on April 6, 1808, until 1813. The box is marked also with the post-Revolutionary unofficial standard mark for 20.5 carat gold, of a boy's head with the number 2. Charles Truman in The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, 1991, p. 122, cites a gold snuffbox with the mark of Victoire Boizot, also bearing the boy's head, as an important document for establishing the dating of this mark which has been the subject of confusion.