A FRENCH 'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE' PLATINUM-GROUND CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

BLACK PAINTED SCRIPT EXHIBITION MARK FOR 1878, INCISED IX AND TRACES OF AN INSCRIPTION FOR CH. BARALTE, RUE MARTEL, PARIS

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A FRENCH 'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE' PLATINUM-GROUND CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
BLACK PAINTED SCRIPT EXHIBITION MARK FOR 1878, INCISED IX AND TRACES OF AN INSCRIPTION FOR CH. BARALTE, RUE MARTEL, PARIS
Painted in resist with exotic birds and insects perched and in flight among flowering branches, the burnished gilt rims enhanced with black tracery, the cover applied with a beaded band
8 in. (20.2 cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

See anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 10 September 1996, lot 159 and anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 12 March 1997, lot 83 for similar examples marked for the l'Exposition Universelle, 1878, Paris.

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