The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Online Sale

A varicoloured gold snuff box, René-Melchior Barre, Paris, 1778/1779

No reserve

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Lot Closed

November 7, 12:20 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

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Lot Details

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Description

oval, the lid formerly centred with an oval portrait miniature of a young lady, now detached, surrounded by chased floral borders on a sablé ground and roundels of stylised sunflowers, within polished gold borders, the sides and base similarly decorated around ovals with trophies of love and gardening, maker's mark, charge and discharge mark of Jean Baptiste Fouache (1774-1780), Paris date letter P for 1778, later post-1918 French eagle's head control marks

8cm., 3 1/8 in. wide

overall weight 160 gr, 5,14 oz

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