Lot 409
  • 409

A tortoiseshell boîte à miniature with two-colour gold mounts, Claude Brisson, Paris, 1778

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  •  A tortoiseshell boîte à miniature with two-colour gold mounts, Claude Brisson, Paris, 1778
  • tortoiseshell, gold, gouache on paper
  • 8cm., 3 1/8 in diameter
circular, later inset with a revolutionary homage in gouache on paper, by Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, signed: C. Hoin Fec., circa 1793, with a paper label reading 'gouache signée de Hoin, représentant les attributs Republicains, placée sur un couvercle de la tabatière de B. Mouestier, Représentant du peuple à la Convention nationale, pour le département du puy de dôme, 1793', two-colour gold laurel borders, maker's mark, date letter, charge and discharge marks of J.B. Fouache

Condition

lid had been re-glued, pins loose and replacement pins.
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