A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
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A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

PROBABLY HANAU, CIRCA 1790, WITH SPURIOUS PARIS MARKS FOR 1756-1762; WITH TWO FRENCH CONTROL MARKS AFTER 1838

已結束2021年12月16日

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GBP 23,750

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A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
PROBABLY HANAU, CIRCA 1790, WITH SPURIOUS PARIS MARKS FOR 1756-1762; WITH TWO FRENCH CONTROL MARKS AFTER 1838
Rectangular box, the cover and four sides applied with enamel plaques, after Teniers, depicting tavern scenes within diamond frames, on a translucent blue-green enamel sun-ray guilloché ground, the mounts chased with entrelac and flowerhead border, with applied silver-mounted diamond-set thumbpiece
2 7⁄8 in. (68 mm.) wide

Sotheby's, 5 December 1960, lot 78;
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 April 1983, lot 599.
Anonymous sale; Christies, London, 25 November 2014, lot 178.

專家說明


The enamelled scenes on the lid are in the style of Jean-Baptiste Greuze's interpretation of Teniers tavern scenes combining unjaded subject matters expressed in soft colours and which remained extremely popular and were often used as decoration on snuff-boxes.