A LOUIS XVI GOLD-MOUNTED BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A FIXÉ-SOUS-VERRE MINIATURE

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A LOUIS XVI GOLD-MOUNTED BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A FIXÉ-SOUS-VERRE MINIATURE
PARIS, 1781-1783, WITH THE DISCHARGE OF HENRY CLAVEL, THE MINIATURE ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-VICTOR-NICOLAS MAILLIÉE
Circular tortoiseshell box, the gold mounts chased with a ribbon-twist motif, the cover set with a fixé-sous-verre miniature depicting the ballet of act V of Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Armida of 1777, representing Rinaldo and the two Knights with furious Armida arriving, in a landscape with merrymaking warriors and dancing young witches in the background
75mm. (3in.) diam., damaged

Provenance

Madame J. Brasseur Collection, Lille.
Her sale, part III, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, room 7, 15 April 1921, lot 10.

Lot Essay

For a very similar signed miniature by Mailliée, see Serge Grandjean et alii, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor - Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, Fribourg, 1975, nr 85.

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