A LOUIS XVI VARI-COLOURED GOLD BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE
A LOUIS XVI VARI-COLOURED GOLD BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE

MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS KALENDRIN 1789-1792, THE MINIATURE SIGNED 'COURTOIS', NICHOLAS ANDRE COURTOIS (1734-1806)

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A LOUIS XVI VARI-COLOURED GOLD BONBONNIÈRE SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE
MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS KALENDRIN 1789-1792, THE MINIATURE SIGNED 'COURTOIS', NICHOLAS ANDRE COURTOIS (1734-1806)
circular box, the sides and base of engine-turned concentric and horizontal reeding stamped at intervals with pellets, the sablé borders chased in two-colour gold with trailing foliage and flower sprigs, the centre of the base engraved with a rosette, the cover set with an enamel portrait miniature, on copper, of a young lady resting on a green cushion, wearing a low-cut lilac corsage with frill-bordered white underslip
2 3/8 in. (62 mm.) wide
来源
Heine Collection, Paris.
From the Collection of John Pierpont Morgan,
Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 489.
Christie's, Geneva, 16 May 1995, lot 98.
出版
George C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of miniatures, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, vol. III, London, 1907, p. 152, nr. 524 (the miniaturist erroneously identified as Marie Courtois)

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