Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
A FRENCH JEWELLED ENAMELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Lot 33

A FRENCH JEWELLED ENAMELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX

19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK I I OR I L WITH CROWN ABOVE, WITH FRENCH SPURIOUS SILVER CHARGE MARK FOR PARIS 1762-1768

Closed16 December 2021

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A FRENCH JEWELLED ENAMELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK I I OR I L WITH CROWN ABOVE, WITH FRENCH SPURIOUS SILVER CHARGE MARK FOR PARIS 1762-1768
Oblong box, the cover and sides set with enamelled panels depicting interior family scenes in the manner of Fragonard, the base set with an enamelled panel with musical and love trophies, within chased vari-colour foliate and entrelac gold sablé borders and side pilasters enhanced with diamonds, in red leather case
3 1⁄2 in. (90 mm.) wide

Specialist note


The same unidentified maker's mark, I I or I L with crown above, is on two boxes in the Louvre Museum. (See S. Grandjean, Catalogue des tabatières, boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, No.s 560 and 561.)