A CONTINENTAL ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
LATE 19TH CENTURY, STRUCK WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE FOR PARIS 1774-1780 AND THE PARISIAN DATE LETTER FOR 1776
circular box, the cover and sides set with panels of enamel simulating pink marble, within opaque apple-green enamel borders set with laurel leaf and flowerhead garlands and translucent dark-blue enamel outer borders, the sides and base each centred with a translucent dark-blue enamel cartouche on a guilloche ground overlaid with pierced gold foliate cagework, the sides with applied laurel and berry garlands, the cover centred with an oval grisaille enamel depicting cupids sacrificing at an Altar of Love, within an entrelac gold frame
3 in. (76 mm.) diam.
A CONTINENTAL ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
LATE 19TH CENTURY, STRUCK WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE FOR PARIS 1774-1780 AND THE PARISIAN DATE LETTER FOR 1776
circular box, the cover and sides set with panels of enamel simulating pink marble, within opaque apple-green enamel borders set with laurel leaf and flowerhead garlands and translucent dark-blue enamel outer borders, the sides and base each centred with a translucent dark-blue enamel cartouche on a guilloche ground overlaid with pierced gold foliate cagework, the sides with applied laurel and berry garlands, the cover centred with an oval grisaille enamel depicting cupids sacrificing at an Altar of Love, within an entrelac gold frame
3 in. (76 mm.) diam.
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