A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

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A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
MAKER'S MARK "LFT", GENEVA, CIRCA 1780/1790, BEARING PRESTIGE MARKS INCLUDING A ROSETTE IMITATING THE CHARGE OF JULIEN ALATERRE, A HEN'S HEAD IMITATING THE DISCHARGE OF JULIEN BERTHE AND DATE-LETTER "K"
Oval box, the cover, sides and base enamelled in translucent blue on an engine-turned vertical coin-pattern ground, framed by white enamel bands, the lid centred by an oval enamel plaque painted with Cupid and a young couple in classical dress, within a white enamel border, the frosted gold mounts applied with opalescent pellets and translucent green enamelled trailing foliage
90mm. (3½in.) wide

Lot Essay

Nine gold boxes by this talented and prolific Genevan goldsmith, bearing identical prestige marks, are in the Louvre (see Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, nrs 566-574). For another gold box by this goldsmith, see lot 314.

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