BY JEAN-LOUIS BERTHE, MARKED, PARIS, 1787, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF HENRY CLAVEL AND THE COUNTER-MARK OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS KALENDRIN 1789-1792
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A Louis XVI vari-colour gold Snuff-Box
by Jean-Louis Berthe, marked, Paris, 1787, with the charge and discharge marks of Henry Clavel and the counter-mark of Jean-François Kalendrin 1789-1792
Rectangular box with canted corners, the cover and base decorated with panels engraved with vertical bands of reeded engine-turning stamped with small and large pellets alternating with similar bands twisted with spiralling ropes of pellets and bands of wavy engine-turning, the sides and corners with matching panels and divided by eight Dorian columns, the borders with trailing foliage chased in two-colour gold on frosted bands
97 mm. (3 7/8 in.) wide
(135 gr.)
by Jean-Louis Berthe, marked, Paris, 1787, with the charge and discharge marks of Henry Clavel and the counter-mark of Jean-François Kalendrin 1789-1792
Rectangular box with canted corners, the cover and base decorated with panels engraved with vertical bands of reeded engine-turning stamped with small and large pellets alternating with similar bands twisted with spiralling ropes of pellets and bands of wavy engine-turning, the sides and corners with matching panels and divided by eight Dorian columns, the borders with trailing foliage chased in two-colour gold on frosted bands
97 mm. (3 7/8 in.) wide
(135 gr.)