A SWISS FOUR-COLOUR GOLD BONBONNIÈRE

BY SENÉ & DÉTALLA (FL. C. 1795-1805), MARKED, GENEVA , CIRCA 1795

Details

A SWISS FOUR-COLOUR GOLD BONBONNIÈRE
BY SENÉ & DÉTALLA (FL. C. 1795-1805), MARKED, GENEVA , CIRCA 1795
circular box of polished gold, the cover centred with a rectangular vari-colour gold sablé plaque chased with a hound seated before an altar of love in a rural landscape, the altar engraved 'HOTEL 1795', within foliate frame and chased vari-colour gold sablé borders
2¾ in. (70 mm.) diam.
3 1/3 oz. (103 gr.)

Provenance

Sotheby’s, Geneva, 24 November 1980, lot 32.

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Lot Essay

The partnership of the Geneva goldsmiths Philippe Sené and Détalla must have existed since sometime before 1795 but seems to have split up in 1805. By October 1805, Sené had gone into partnership with his brother-in-law Henry Neisser who had come to Geneva from Hanau in 1785/1786. Sené died in November 1807 and Neisser entered a mark on his own account in 1808.

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