A FINE LOUIS XV GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY JEAN FRÉMIN (FL. 1738-1786), MARKED, PARIS, 1744/1745, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF ANTOINE LESCHAUDEL 1744-1750, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD

細節

A FINE LOUIS XV GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Jean Frémin (fl. 1738-1786), marked, Paris, 1744/1745, with the charge and discharge marks of Antoine Leschaudel 1744-1750, later struck with two Parisian post-1838 restricted warranty marks for gold
Rectangular box with slightly domed cover and concave sides, all over chased with a regular pattern of diagonal stripes of leaves alternating with floral branches on a ground of horizontal reeding, slightly raised incorporated thumbpiece
2 11/16 in. (68 mm.) wide
4 1/3 oz. (125 gr.)

拍品專文

Jean Frémin is one of the best-known French gold-box makers of the Louis XV period. The present box appears to be one of his earliest works, predating the gold and lacquer box in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore hitherto considered as his earliest known box, by six years. Other boxes by his hand are to be found in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Wallace Collection and in the Gilbert Collection, London.