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Oblong, the hinged cover, base and sides engine-turned with panels of horizontal reeding and alternating trefoils, within blue enamel borders decorated with gold vine paillons, marked on base, cover, and rims
334 in. (9.6 cm.) wide
3 oz. 15 dwt. (118 gr.) gross
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Blerzy was at the forefront of taste in using paillons to decorate his snuff-boxes. This technique was first developed for Sèvres porcelain by Philippe Parpette and Joseph Coteau in the mid-1770s. These motifs consisting of strips of gold foils punched into metal dies, were supplied by paillonneurs, whose communauté was amalgamated in the goldsmiths guild from 1777, to enamellers and makers of clocks and snuff-boxes. Although the technique had gone out of fashion on porcelain by 1786, Blerzy used it quite successfully for several boxes.

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