A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
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A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY PIERRE-FRANÇOIS DELAFONS (FL. 1732-1759), MARKED, PARIS, 1749/1750, WITH THE CHARGE MARK OF ANTOINE LESCHAUDEL AND THE DISCHARGE MARK OF JULIEN BERTHE, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD

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A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Pierre-François Delafons (fl. 1732-1759), marked, Paris, 1749/1750, with the charge mark of Antoine Leschaudel and the discharge mark of Julien Berthe, later struck with two Parisian post-1838 warranty marks for gold
Rectangular box, the four sides, base and slightly convex cover engraved with a pattern of quatrefoils within open rectangles on a frosted ground and decorated with opaque multi-colour and translucent green enamel flowers en relief, slightly raised incorporated thumbpiece
3 1/8 in. (80 mm.) wide

Anonymous sale; Hôtel des Chevau-Légers, Versailles, 13 December 1992, lot 28 (illustrated in colour on catalogue front cover, erroneously as by Pierre Drais 1745).
With Sapjo, Monte-Carlo, 1999, acquired by
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-235).

专家说明

Works by this celebrated goldsmith are rare; snuff-boxes by his hand can be seen in the Louvre, in the Hermitage, in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Snuff-boxes decorated with enamelled flowers en relief were fashionable in the late 1740s; similar works by Jean Moynat and Jean Ducrolly, dated 1747 and 1750, are recorded.