Details
Ovale en or poli, ciselée de motifs géométriques, sur le couvercle et le fond un large ruban ondulant émaillé en bleu nuit encadrant un bouquet de fleurs dans un panier à anse émaillé en ocre, vert et bleu, les côtés décorés d'une large frise d'anneaux entrelacés et centrés d'un carré et d'un disque au milieu émaillés en bleu et vert sous une frise de clés grecques, poinçons dans le couvercle, le fond et les côtés: charge, lettre-date (a) et maître-orfèvre, sur la gorge: décharge
L.: 5,5 cm. (214 in.)
Poids brut: 62 gr. (1 oz. 1 dwt.)
Provenance
Property of a Swiss Gentleman; Christie's, Londres, 22 mai 2001, lot 77.
FURTHER DETAILS
A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY NICOLAS ALLAIN, PARIS, 1764-1765
Oval, polished gold, the cover and base centred with a basket of flowers enamelled en basse-taille with translucent blue, green and orange on a polished gold ground, within a scalloped engraved rim and a reeded gold border enamelled with a champlevé translucent blue ruffled ribbon pattern, the reeded sides similarly enamelled with interlacing rings enclosing translucent green enamelled pellets, the upper and lower borders of the sides enamelled in translucent blue champlevé with a Greek key pattern, marked in cover, base and side: charge, date-letter (a) and maker; on flange: decharge
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