A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY PIERRE-LUCIEN JOITTEAU, MARKED, PARIS, 1779/1780, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE AND THE FIRST COUNTERMARK OF HENRY CLAVEL

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A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Pierre-Lucien Joitteau, marked, Paris, 1779/1780, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache and the first countermark of Henry Clavel
Oval two-colour gold box, the panels on cover, sides and base enamelled in opaque lavender blue and gold and silver paillons of trailing foliage and trophies, the cover centred with an oval reserve chased with a pair of doves observed by a dog, within a frosted gold border with a translucent green enamelled garland of leaves and chased flowers with ribbon cresting, the cover and base bordered with frosted enamel bands enamelled in translucent green and red with berries and leaves, the sides edged with translucent green enamelled guilloche bands, the chased side pilasters enamelled with red drapery and green leaves
83 mm. (3.1/4 in.) wide

拍品專文

This is a good example of the use of paillons, hitherto a speciality of the Geneva enamellists, by the French goldsmiths during the last decade of the Ancien Régime. Other specimen are illustrated in A. Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, nos. 395, 406 and in Stefan Bursche, Galanterien, Berlin, 1996, no. 7.
Pierre-Lucien Joitteau struck his mark in 1773 and was last mentioned in 1793.