BY JACQUES-MICHEL LEMAIRE (FL. 1722-1776), MARKED, PARIS, 1725/1726, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF CHARLES CORDIER 1722-1727

A similar bloodstone box by this goldsmith and dated 1730 is in the Louvre, illustrated by S. Grandjean, Catalogue des tabatières, boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 151. Another box by this goldsmith and given by Louis XV to the Grand Master of Malta, is in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, illustrated by A. Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London 1966, pl. 136.