A LOUIS XV STYLE GOLD, ENAMEL, AGATE AND GEM-SET BOITE-A-PORTRAIT
Lot 2

A LOUIS XV STYLE GOLD, ENAMEL, AGATE AND GEM-SET BOITE-A-PORTRAIT

19TH CENTURY

Closed17 May 2011

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USD 35,000

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A LOUIS XV STYLE GOLD, ENAMEL, AGATE AND GEM-SET BOITE-A-PORTRAIT
19TH CENTURY
Cartouche form, the gold finely chased and enameled with scrolls and foliage, the cover set with an enamel portrait of Louis XIV atrributed to Jean Petitot and a later hand, surrounded by diamonds, marked inside base and cover with spurious warden's mark for Paris 1738 and the charge of Louis Robin and maker's mark of Gabriel Gallois; the rim with décharge
2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm.) long