Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A FRENCH PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD BOITE-A-ROUGE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
Lot 330

A FRENCH PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD BOITE-A-ROUGE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE

THE BOX BY GABRIEL-RAOUL MOREL (FL. 1797-1832), MARKED, WITH THE PARISIAN POST-REVOLUTIONARY UNOFFICIAL STANDARD MARK FOR 20.5 CARAT GOLD, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD, THE MICROMOSAIC ROME, CIRCA 1800/1820

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 6,250

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A FRENCH PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD BOITE-A-ROUGE SET WITH A MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE
THE BOX BY GABRIEL-RAOUL MOREL (FL. 1797-1832), MARKED, WITH THE PARISIAN POST-REVOLUTIONARY UNOFFICIAL STANDARD MARK FOR 20.5 CARAT GOLD, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD, THE MICROMOSAIC ROME, CIRCA 1800/1820
circular box with convex lid and base, the independent cover set with an oval micromosaic plaque of a nude child seated in a landscape and playing the guitar, framed by a sky-blue enamel band with taille d'épargne gold husks, the cover, base and sides chased with a trompe-l'oeil basket-weave pattern, the polished gold borders with opaque sky-blue enamel stripes
1 7/8 in. (47 mm.) diam.

With Au Vieux Paris, Paris.

Specialist note

The Gilbert Collection contains six boxes by Gabriel-Raoul Morel, illustrated in C. Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Volume II, London, 1999, p. 65, no. 12, and in C. Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles, 1991, p. 128, no. 40 and pp. 136-147, nos. 44-47. Together with Vachette and Fossin, Gabriel-Raoul Morel, who struck his mark as early as 1797, may be considered as one of the most important French gold box makers of the first half of the 19th Century.