Two multi-coloured gold etuis à cire, Nicolas Durier, Paris

the first, lobed section, panels with bright-cut edging, banded with four-colour gold chased bands of flowers, maker’s mark, charge and discharge of J.J. Prévost ; the second, oval section, fluted and hungwzith green-gold swags, maker’s marks, charge and discharge of J. Alaterre, both with later seal matrices engraved with jugate arms, below the coronets of a count and a marquis, later French control marks

both in good condition
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