A MENNECY SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX
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A MENNECY SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX

CIRCA 1750-55, MOUNT WITH PARIS DECHARGE MARK FOR JULIEN BERTHE, 1750-56

细节
A MENNECY SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX
CIRCA 1750-55, MOUNT WITH PARIS DECHARGE MARK FOR JULIEN BERTHE, 1750-56
In the form of two pug-dogs playfully tumbling over each other, each with a coloured collar and rosette, on a high grassy mound, the oval cover moulded with a coloured bouquet of flowers, the interior of the cover painted with a bouquet of flowers (exterior with slight wear to enamels, edge of cover with minute fritting, mount slightly distressed)
2¾ in. (7 cm.) wide overall
来源
Oscar Dusendschon Collection, Geneva, sale Sotheby's London, 6th December 1960, lot 35.
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拍品专文

For a similar box in the Musées Royaux d'art et histoire, Brussels (inv. SY. 115), see Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, op. cit. (Fribourg, 1985), p. 477, no. 421.