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A LOUIS XVI JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX
Lot 91

A LOUIS XVI JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX

BY JEAN-JOSEPH BARRIÈRE (FL. 1763-1793), MARKED, PARIS, 1779/1780, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE 1775-1780

Closed29 November 2016

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A LOUIS XVI JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX
BY JEAN-JOSEPH BARRIÈRE (FL. 1763-1793), MARKED, PARIS, 1779/1780, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE 1775-1780
oval box, the cover later centred with an oval enamelled miniature of a nobleman, German School, circa 1700/1710, wearing a white wig and green coat below a jewelled crown, and applied with a silver sunburst ground design inset with circular and rose-cut diamonds, the cover, sides and base set with panels of translucent purple enamel on a guilloché ground, the outer sablé gold borders with turquoise, orange and white enamel pellets set amidst green enamel foliage
3 3/8 in. (87 mm.) wide

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Jean-Joseph Barrière became master in 1763, sponsored by Henri Delobel. He worked on the pont-Notre-Dame until 1786 when his shop and dwelling were pulled down during the reconstruction of the bridge. He then moved to the rue Coq Saint-Honoré where he is recorded until the Terror in 1793. Barrière was one of the more productive of Parisian goldsmiths: the Louvre owns ten examples of his work; Fürst Carl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis collection, Regensburg, Lorenz Seelig, Golddosen des 18. Jahrhunderts aus dem Besitz der Fürsten von Thurn und Taxis. Die Sammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums im Thurn und Taxis-Museum Regensburg, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2007, largely bought at the time of manufacture, has eight.