Lot Essay
For two other gold boxes by Blerzy, one of the foremost gold boxes makers of his time, see lots 38 and 80.
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A young lady, facing left in pale blue dress with lace-bordered underdress with large white bow at corsage, her fair hair curled and upswept
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JEREMIAH MEYER, R.A. (1735-1789)
A young lady, facing left in pale blue dress with lace-bordered underdress with large white bow at corsage, her fair hair curled and upswept
oval, 2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) high, gold mount on the cover of a circular Louis XVI gold snuff-box enamelled in translucent gun-metal blue-grey on a guilloché vertical coin pattern, the box by Joseph-Etienne Blerzy (fl. 1768-1808), marked, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache 1774-1780 and struck with inventory no. 505 (3 5/16 in. 84 mm. diam.)
A young lady, facing left in pale blue dress with lace-bordered underdress with large white bow at corsage, her fair hair curled and upswept
oval, 2 7/8 in. (72 mm.) high, gold mount on the cover of a circular Louis XVI gold snuff-box enamelled in translucent gun-metal blue-grey on a guilloché vertical coin pattern, the box by Joseph-Etienne Blerzy (fl. 1768-1808), marked, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache 1774-1780 and struck with inventory no. 505 (3 5/16 in. 84 mm. diam.)
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