Live Auction 1162Centuries of Style, Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
AN IMPORTANT LOUIS XV VARI-COLOUR GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
Lot 284 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 

AN IMPORTANT LOUIS XV VARI-COLOUR GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX

MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, PARIS, 1756/1757, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF ELOY BRICHARD 1756-1762

Closed27 November 2013

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AN IMPORTANT LOUIS XV VARI-COLOUR GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, PARIS, 1756/1757, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF ELOY BRICHARD 1756-1762
rectangular gold-lined box, the cover, sides and base set with panels of lapis-lazuli adorned with pierced cagework chased in four-colour gold with figures, palm-trees, birds and fruit from an exotic land
3.3/8 in. (85 mm.) wide

C.H.T. Hawkins Collection; Christie's, London, 28 June 1904, lot 2113. Charles J. Wertheimer Collection; Christie's, London, 8 May 1912, lot 21.
Christie's, Geneva, 19 May 1992, lot 96.

Specialist note

The cagework of the cover also bears the charge mark of Charles Cordier 1722-1726 which suggests that the gold has been re-used from an earlier period.