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A REGENCY GOLD-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL SNUFF-BOX SET WITH TWO ENAMEL MINIATURES
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A REGENCY GOLD-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL SNUFF-BOX SET WITH TWO ENAMEL MINIATURES

IN THE MANNER OF RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1815/20, THE MINIATURE ON COVER BY JEAN PETITOT (1607-1691), THE MINIATURE INSIDE BOX BY CHARLES BOIT (1672-1727), SIGNED WITH MONOGRAM 'CB;' (LOWER LEFT)

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A REGENCY GOLD-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL SNUFF-BOX SET WITH TWO ENAMEL MINIATURES
IN THE MANNER OF RUNDELL, BRIDGE & RUNDELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1815/20, THE MINIATURE ON COVER BY JEAN PETITOT (1607-1691), THE MINIATURE INSIDE BOX BY CHARLES BOIT (1672-1727), SIGNED WITH MONOGRAM 'CB;' (lower left)
Rectangular black tortoiseshell snuff-box with concave sides, the lid centred with an oval enamel miniature of a young lady, in off-the-shoulder white dress adorned with a rope of pearls, gem-set and drop-pearl pendant pinned at corsage on blue bodice, ochre-coloured stole draped over her left shoulder, pearls in her long curled fair hair, in a rectangular réverbère gold mount with foliate border within silver-gilt frame with translucent blue guilloché enamel border, scrolling foliate gold thumbpiece, the gold-mounted interior of the lid inset with a rectangular enamel plaque depicting an allegory of Charity
3½ in. (89 mm.) wide
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With a size of 62 x 75 mm., this enamel by Charles Boit is a smaller but signed version of his masterwork presented to the Académie Royale, Paris, on his admission on 30 April 1717. Both versions are inspired by Carlo Cignani's (1628-1719) large scale oil on canvas 'Charity', now in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, inv. no. 1942.31. Boit's reception piece, measuring 115 x 150 mm., now in the Louvre (inv. no. 35583), is illustrated in G. W. Lundberg, Charles Boit 1662-1727 émailleur-miniaturiste suédois, Paris, 1987, colour pl. I.
The enamel by Petitot is reminiscent of the large scale oil on canvas portrait of Anne-Geneviève of Bourbon-Condé, Duchess of Longueville (1619-1679) in the Museum of Versailles Castle, inv. no. 9828, illustrated in C. Constans, Musée national du Château de Versailles. Les peintures, Paris, 1995, II, p. 1007, no. 5636. Another similar painting, depicting Charlotte-Isabelle-Elisabeth-Angélique de Montmorency-Boutteville, Duchess of Châtillon, later Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, is illustrated in C. Constans, op. cit., II, p. 1028, no. 5761.