Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Lot 38

A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY PIERRE-ANDRÉ BARBIER (FL. 1764-1776), MARKED, PARIS, 1764-1765, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-JACQUES PRÉVOST 1762-1768

Closed16 December 2021

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A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY PIERRE-ANDRÉ BARBIER (FL. 1764-1776), MARKED, PARIS, 1764-1765, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-JACQUES PRÉVOST 1762-1768
Oval box, the cover, sides and base set with panels of translucent green enamel on a scale-pattern engine-turned ground, within scrolling polished gold and green enamel outer borders, the sides later hung with gold foliate garlands between chased foliate pilasters, the cover centred with an oval grisaille pink enamel miniature depicting three putti within a later gold foliate wreath surround, the interior cover later engraved with the inscription 'FROM / HER MAJESTY QUEEN CHARLOTTE / TO / COLONEL PETER RYVES HAWKER, / 1st TROOP OF HORSE GUARDS'
3 3⁄8 in. (86 mm.) wide

Presented by Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), consort of King George III (1760-1820) to Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ryves Hawker (d.1790), of Longparish House, Hampshire and 1st Troop of Horse Guards, bodyguards to the monarch.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 14 May 1996, lot 348.
French & English Furniture from a Distinguished Private Collection; Christie's, New York, 24 October 2017, lot 25.

Specialist note


The elongated shape of this snuff-box might be what was referred to in 18th century inventories as boîte en beignoir (in the shape of a bathtub).
Pierre-André Barbier became a Master in 1764 and is recorded working in the rue Quincampoix until 1776. A box by him is in the Louvre Museum (acc. No. OA 7962), and two are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (acc. No WA1948.24 and WA1948.10).