Petite tabatière en or et émail, Hanau, fin du XVIIIe siècle

ovale, peinte de scènes de marines dans un camaïeu de carmins, poinçons de prestige français dont le poinçon de maître LFT probablement pour les frères Toussaint, poinçon de charge d'Alaterre, lettre-date K et décharge, tête de canard



oval, the lid, sides and base painted in crimson camaïeu with marine subjects within white bead and translucent green leaf borders on a sablé ground, French prestige marks including maker's mark LFT, charge mark of Alaterre, date letter K and duck head discharge

Very good overall condition; minor restoration and small damages to enamel borders.
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For boxes struck with the same makers' mark, also decorated with marine subjects in crimson camaïeu, see a circular box from the Schlichting bequest, Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 574; a circular box, Sotheby's Geneva, 14 November 1985, lot 384; and an oval example, Sotheby's Geneva, 6 May 1981, lot 218.