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

BY HENRI DELOBEL (FL. 1748-1785), MARKED WITH HIS PRE-1756 MAKER'S MARK, PARIS, 1753/1754, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JULIEN BERTHE 1750-1756

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A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Henri Delobel (fl. 1748-1785), marked with his pre-1756 maker's mark, Paris, 1753/1754, with the charge and discharge marks of Julien Berthe 1750-1756
Circular box, the hinged lid, sides and base of burnished gold, engraved and painted in translucent green basse-taille and in opaque enamel with nude children at play, the lid with two children playing see-saw on a log, the sides with a child fishing and with mounds of fruit and the base with a child holding a parrot, the borders of the box engraved with scrolls
1 13/16 in. (46 mm.) diam.

Baroness Meyer de Rothschild, née Juliana Cohen (+ 1877), in 1862.
Hannah de Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery (1851-1890).
By descent until 1999.
The Property of The Rosebery Family Trust', Sotheby's, London, 11 February 1999, lot 180.
With Sapjo, Monte-Carlo, 1999, acquired by
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-236).

專家說明

The subject on the lid is adapted from Fessard's engraving for his Jeux d'enfants after François Boucher's La Balançoire.
For a box by Delobel using his post-1756 maker's mark, see lot 882.