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MARK OF GABRIEL GALLOIS, PARIS, 1738-1739
Details
A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED BURGAU, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND LACQUER SNUFF-BOX
MARK OF GABRIEL GALLOIS, PARIS, 1738-1739
Rectangular, with plain reeded borders and shaped thumbpiece, the cover, base and sides set en cage with panels of black lacquer inlaid with iridescent shells and gold piqué depicting on the cover a cockerel with flowering tree and house, on the underside and sides with birds in flowering garden, marked in cover, base and inner rim with charge, date-letters (Y and Z) and maker; on flange with decharge
2 5⁄8 in. (96.7 cm.) long
gross weight 5 oz. (157 gr.)
MARK OF GABRIEL GALLOIS, PARIS, 1738-1739
Rectangular, with plain reeded borders and shaped thumbpiece, the cover, base and sides set en cage with panels of black lacquer inlaid with iridescent shells and gold piqué depicting on the cover a cockerel with flowering tree and house, on the underside and sides with birds in flowering garden, marked in cover, base and inner rim with charge, date-letters (Y and Z) and maker; on flange with decharge
2 5⁄8 in. (96.7 cm.) long
gross weight 5 oz. (157 gr.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 10 November 1987, lot 388.
with S. J. Phillips Ltd., London, May 1990.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.
with S. J. Phillips Ltd., London, May 1990.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.
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