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    Sale 6439

    Important Gold Boxes Objects of Vertu including Vinaigrettes

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    22 May 2001

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    • A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED GOLD SNU
    Lot 152

    A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

    BY JEAN-BAPTISTE MARIE (FL. 1769-1788), MARKED, PARIS, 1778/1779, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO FRENCH POST-1864 GOLD IMPORT MARKS

    Price realised

    GBP 9,400

    Estimate

    GBP 8,000 - GBP 12,000

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    A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
    by Jean-Baptiste Marie (fl. 1769-1788), marked, Paris, 1778/1779, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, later struck with two French post-1864 gold import marks
    Oval box, the cover, base and four side panels enamelled with translucent caramel-colour on an engine-turned peaked ground, within reeded gold borders, the cover centred with an oval enamel plaque painted en grisaille with an oval portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II (1741-1790) dressed as a warrior with laurel crown, flanked by a standing nude child holding a laurel crown and by the Habsburg eagle holding a globe, sceptre and sword, on a marble column, purple drapery in the background, within a sablé gold border enamelled with translucent green leaves and chased with flowers surmounted by a bow cresting, the four side pilasters similarly hung with green enamelled swags, the frosted gold borders with twisted translucent green and opaque white ribbons enclosing pellets
    3 3/16 in. (81 mm.) wide

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