BY LOUIS-PHILLIPE DEMAY OR DE MAY (FL. 1758-1772), MARKED, PARIS, 1767/1768, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-JACQUES PREVOST 1762-1768, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED 'DEMAYS Á PARIS' AND STAMPED WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 542, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO FRENCH RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD 1838-1919

Louis-Philippe Demay worked for the services of the Présents du Roi and of the Menus Plaisirs of King Louis XV. Among his clients was also the notorious Countess du Barry. According to Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, p. 79, only eleven boxes by Demay are recorded, all dated between 1760 and 1769. These include the four snuff-boxes in the Louvre and the three boxes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.