A SWISS JEWELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Lot 89

A SWISS JEWELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

MAKER'S MARK P C, GENEVA, CIRCA 1810, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NO. 204

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 3,750

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A SWISS JEWELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
MAKER'S MARK P C, GENEVA, CIRCA 1810, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NO. 204
pocket-shaped box with rounded corners, the cover, sides and base with panels of roundel-pattern engine-turning, the cover centred with an oval cast and chased medallion on frosted gold ground and later set with four emeralds, one at each corner, with raised chased foliate borders and thumbpiece
3¼ in. (83 mm.) wide

Finarte, Milan, 21 October 1991, lot 458.

Specialist note

The marks on this box are the same as those on a box in the Louvre, illustrated in S. Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, p. 442, no. 537.