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A Jeweled Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, 19th Century in Earlier Taste

No reserve

Auction Closed

October 16, 06:35 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

rectangular with cut corners, all sides set with en grisaille enamel plaques of putti and classically-dressed figures playing music and allegorical of friendship, on a cherry red translucent enamel ground over trellis engine-turning, stamped openwork mounts, the applied floral thumbpiece set with rose-cut diamonds and garnets, the front rim spuriously engraved: Roucel Orfe du Roi A Paris, French prestige marks including maker's mark for Louis Roucel, charge and discharge marks for Jean Jacques Prevost, Paris date letter B for 1765


Length 3 ⅛ in.

7.9 cm