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Lot 177
  • 177

A three-colour gold and enamel snuff box, Jean-Joseph Barrière, Paris, 1776

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • gold, enamel
  • width 7cm, 2 3/4 in
oval, the lid later inset with an enamel miniature, French school, circa 1775, of Venus and Cupid playing with a pet dog and a cockerel, corded gold frame, the ground enamelled in translucent amber over scale engine-turning within chased and green enamelled garland or laurel borders, maker's mark, charge and discharge marks of J.B. Fouache, the rim numbered: 1544, in velvet-lined shagreen case

Condition

Enamel plaque very finely painted. Ground and sides have been well restored. Base has some wear in centre.
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Catalogue Note

Jean-Joseph Barrière became master in 1763, sponsored by Henri Delobel. He worked on the pont-Notre-Dame until 1786 when his shop and dwelling were pulled down during the reconstruction of the bridge; then moving to the rue Coq Saint-Honoré where he is recorded until the Terror in 1793. Barrière was one of the more productive Parisian goldsmiths: the Louvre owns ten examples of his work; Fürst Carl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis's collection of  gold boxes, largely bought at the time of manufacture, contained eight (Lorenz Seelig, Golddosen des 18. Jahrhunderts aus dem Besitz der Fürsten von Thurn und Taxis, Munich, 2007, nos. 7, 8, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 25).