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Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection

A three-coloured gold and enamel box, Jean-Joseph Barrière, Paris, 1770/1771

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May 16, 01:48 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 CHF

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Lot Details

Description

oval, the lid centred with an oval enamel plaque of a young boy by an altar of love, in a sablé frame chased with husks, on a ground of translucent dark green enamel over scale-patterned engine-turning, the outer borders elaborately enamelled to simulate marble, alternating with cartouches of chased trophies of love and music, the sides and base similarly decorated, maker's mark, charge and discharge mark of Julien Alaterre, Paris date letter G,


6.6 cm; 2 ⅝ in. wide