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A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED ROCK-CRYSTAL BONBONNIERE SET WITH A FINE ENAMEL PLAQUE
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A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED ROCK-CRYSTAL BONBONNIERE SET WITH A FINE ENAMEL PLAQUE

THE GOLD MOUNTS PARIS, 1762/1763, WITH THE CHARGE MARK OF ELOY BRICHARD 1756-1762 AND THE DISCHARGE MARK OF JEAN-JACQUES PRÉVOST 1762-1768, MAKER'S MARK RUBBED WITH FIRST INITIAL 'M' OF TWO, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD, THE ENAMEL PLAQUE BY GEORG MICHAEL MOSER (1706-1783), SIGNED IN GOLD 'G. M. MOSER. F'

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A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED ROCK-CRYSTAL BONBONNIERE SET WITH A FINE ENAMEL PLAQUE
the gold mounts Paris, 1762/1763, with the charge mark of Eloy Brichard 1756-1762 and the discharge mark of Jean-Jacques Prévost 1762-1768, maker's mark rubbed with first initial 'M' of two, later struck with two Parisian post-1838 restricted warranty marks for gold, the enamel plaque by Georg Michael Moser (1706-1783), signed in gold 'G. M. Moser. F'
Circular box, the base of bright-cut rock-crystal, the gold mounts engraved with a stylized leaf pattern, the hinged lid inset with an enamel watch-case cover painted with a scene depicting Telemachus, protected by the goddess Minerva seated in clouds, relating his adventures to the Goddess Calypso seated in a palatial interior on a throne with two female attendants behind, framed by fluted gold scrolls, slightly raised incorporated thumbpiece
1 13/16 in. (46 mm.) diam.
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According to C. Le Corbeiller (European and American Snuff-boxes 1730-1830, London, 1966, p. 38, 'It is as an enameller - and also as the first Keeper of the Royal Academy - that Moser is chiefly remembered. However, no signed enamels by him are known and it is impossible to attribute work to him with any certainty'. Since 1966, at least two signed enamels by him have come to light; the famous nécessaire from the collection of the British Rail Pension Fund (Sotheby's, Geneva, 15 May 1990, lot 47, sold for SFr. 440,000), also illustrated in Sturzenegger-Stiftung Schaffhausen im Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Katalog der Erwerbungen 1987-1991, Schaffhausen, 1992, no. 35, pp. 88-89). A similar enamel watchase signed by Moser is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Schaffhauser Kunst und Kultur im 18. Jahrhundert, Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 1983, p. 37. Moser painted for King George III a double portrait of his two eldest sons on a watchcase, now in the Royal Collection.