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BY FRANÇOIS JOANIN, MARKED, GENEVA, CIRCA 1800, WITH PRESTIGE MARKS, THE FLANGE STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NO. 4324
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A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by François Joanin, marked, Geneva, circa 1800, with prestige marks, the flange struck with inventory no. 4324
Octagonal flattened box, the cover, eight sides and base enamelled in translucent royal blue on an engine-turned herringbone pattern of columns of opposed diagonal reeding, the lid centred by a large tondo painted with a couple of fisherpeople at a riverside in a mountainous landscape enamelled en plein on a guilloché radiating sunset background, white enamelled outer borders and smoky tinted white enamel inner borders, bright-cut gold rims with very slightly everted incorporated thumbpiece
3 5/16 in. (85 mm.) wide
by François Joanin, marked, Geneva, circa 1800, with prestige marks, the flange struck with inventory no. 4324
Octagonal flattened box, the cover, eight sides and base enamelled in translucent royal blue on an engine-turned herringbone pattern of columns of opposed diagonal reeding, the lid centred by a large tondo painted with a couple of fisherpeople at a riverside in a mountainous landscape enamelled en plein on a guilloché radiating sunset background, white enamelled outer borders and smoky tinted white enamel inner borders, bright-cut gold rims with very slightly everted incorporated thumbpiece
3 5/16 in. (85 mm.) wide
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