tabatière ovale en or de trois tons, émail et perles à double ouverture, poinçons de prestige français, fin du XVIIIe siècle

le couvercle orné d'une plaque peinte à Genève en émail, le fond émaillé de bleu entouré de bordures ciselées et émaillées , poinçons de prestige dont le poinçon de maître NCQ couronné, charge de J. Alaterre et lettre-date P



oval,  the lid inset with a Geneva enamel plaque painted with a girl clutching a lapdog, pearl frame, the ground, sides and hinged base enamelled in translucent blue over engine-turning within chased garland borders, French prestige marks including maker's mark NCQ crowned, charge mark of J. Alaterre and date letter P

Tactful restoration to enamel on sides and base; generally good effect overall.
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For two boxes struck with the same maker's mark, formerly in the Rothschild Collections at Waddesdon, see Grandjean/Piacenti/Truman/Blunt, The James A. Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, Fribourg, 1975, nos. 105 and 128.