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A LOUIS XV GOLD SNUFF-BOX
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A LOUIS XV GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY MARTIN LAIGNIER (FL. 1760-1766), MARKED, PARIS, 1762/1763, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-JACQUES PRÉVOST 1762-1768, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO FRENCH IMPORT MARKS FOR GOLD 1864-1893

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A LOUIS XV GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Martin Laignier (fl. 1760-1766), marked, Paris, 1762/1763, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Jacques Prévost 1762-1768, later struck with two French import marks for gold 1864-1893
Rectangular box, the cover, sides and base engine-turned with a pattern of different types of guilloché including scalework, coin bands, scallops and radiating circles, within shaped triangles framed by wavy reeded bands
2 11/16 in. (68 mm.) wide
4 oz. (114 gr.)
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拍品專文

A very similar early guilloché specimen gold box by Jean-Marie Tiron, of 1760/1761, is illustrated in A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, pl. 314, later sold at Christie's Geneva, 14 May 1991, lot 22.