A Swiss gold and enamel carillon musical snuff box, Guidon, Rémond, Gide, Geneva, 1792-1801

oval, the cover painted with the elopement of Helen, the partly pierced sides and base decorated with champlevé enamel in white, dark and light blue in diaper pattern, the sides also with two-handled urns at intervals, pinned cylinder music playing three tunes on a nest of five bells, the skeletonized gilt movement lightly tooled with foliage, the base with shallow snuff (or key) compartment, marked on both covers GRG crowned

restoration to enamel scene, movement good, bells replaced
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A similar carillon music box, painted with a different version of the same scene, was offered Christie's, Geneva, 19 November 1979, lot 111; another example with the scene in reverse (a Chinese pair) was part of the Emile Wertheimer collection, Sotheby's, 13 July 1953, lot 137.