BY GABRIEL RAOUL MOREL (1764-1832), MARKED, WITH THE PARISIAN THIRD STANDARD AND EXCISE MARKS FOR GOLD 1819-1838, THE PARISIAN POST-REVOLUTIONARY UNOFFICIAL STANDARD MARK FOR 18-CARAT GOLD, THE FLANGE STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 502, THE PLAQUES BY KIRSTEIN OF STRASBOURG, CIRCA 1820/30

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AN IMPORTANT FRENCH GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH SIX GOLD PLAQUES
by Gabriel Raoul Morel (1764-1832), marked, with the Parisian third standard and excise marks for gold 1819-1838, the Parisian post-Revolutionary unofficial standard mark for 18-carat gold, the flange struck with inventory number 502, the plaques by Kirstein of Strasbourg, circa 1820/30
Heavy rectangular box, the cover, base and four side panels inset with gold relief plaques finely cast, chased, pierced and engraved with wooded hunting scenes, all under convex glass, the gold cagework engine-turned with a ribbon-twist band on cover and base and with oval pellets and husks on the sides, the four corner pilasters engraved with swags, the inside gold-lined
3½ in. (90 mm.) wide

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

For a Swiss snuff-box by Bautte & Moynier with five gold plaques by Kirstein, see C. Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes - Volume Two, London, 1999, no. 47. Another similar large box with five plaques was in the collection of Mrs Charles W. Engelhard, sold Christie's, New York, 18 March 2005, lot 80.
The Gilbert Collection, London, contains six gold boxes by Gabriel Raoul Morel (illustrated in Truman, op. cit., no. 12, and in C. Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles, 1991, nos. 40, 44, 45, 46 and 47). The latter four show the same accomplished craftmanship in the quality of the cagework mounts as the present box. Together with Vachette and Fossin, Gabriel Raoul Morel, who struck his mark as early as 1797, may be considered as one of the most important French gold boxes makers of the first half of the 19th Century.