拍品 60
60
A LOUIS XV VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE BETTY, LADY GRANTCHESTER
A LOUIS XV VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY LOUIS-PHILIPPE DEMAY (FL. 1758-1772), MARKED, PARIS, 1760/1761, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF ELOY BRICHARD 1756-1762, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 62

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A LOUIS XV VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY LOUIS-PHILIPPE DEMAY (FL. 1758-1772), MARKED, PARIS, 1760/1761, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF ELOY BRICHARD 1756-1762, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 62
oval box, the cover, sides and base each boldly chased and engraved in four-colour gold with trophies of music on a radiating sunrise ground, within reeded and fluted c-scroll borders interspersed with flowerheads and foliage
2 7/8 in. (74 mm.) wide
3¾ oz. (112 gr.)
来源
Etienne Gabriel Brunet (1725-1789), Nantes and Vierzon, trader and Royal Councillor.
His son Etienne Nicolas Brunet (1780-1862).
Thence by direct family descent; Christie's, London 28 May 2002, lot 250.

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拍品专文


Whilst it is already rare to find Louis XV gold snuff-boxes having descended in noble families from the first to the present owner, the survival and direct provenance of these precious objects within families of the bourgeoisie is of exceptional character. Louis-Philippe Demay worked for the services of the Présents du Roi and of the Menus Plaisirs of King Louis XV.

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