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A Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Nineteenth Century in Earlier Taste

Auction Closed

June 18, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

oval, the lid applied with an oval enamel plaque with a mythological subject, surrounded by translucent dark green enamel over engine-turned bands of pellets, within green, red, and opalescent white enamel bead borders on a sablé ground, rubbed French prestige marks including the charge mark of Eloy Brichard and Etienne Somfoye and the charge mark of Julien Alaterre,


Length 3 1/4 in.

8.3 cm

Sotheby's, London, 12 November 1998, lot 36