STYLE: European Silver, Gold Boxes and Ceramics
STYLE: European Silver, Gold Boxes and Ceramics
A GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL SNUFF BOX, RÉMOND, LAMY, MERCIER & CO., GENEVA, CIRCA 1814
Auction Closed
November 11, 04:08 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A GOLD, ENAMEL AND PEARL SNUFF BOX, RÉMOND, LAMY, MERCIER & CO., GENEVA, CIRCA 1814
of navette form, the lid chased with a crowned Napoleonic eagle with spread wings perched on a laurel branch and emphasised with split pearls, within a narrow blue enamel border, the sides chased with flowery scrollwork and enamelled with urns in taille d’épargne below a scalloped enamel border enclosing tulips, the base chased with a military trophy within a garland-hung laurel wreath on a sablé ground, maker's mark IGRC in a horizontal lozenge only
9.4 cm., 3¾in. wide
Anonymous vendor, Sotheby’s, 3 July 1980, lot 20;
Anonymous vendor, Christie’s, 2 November 1986, lot 396
Although this box is not struck with the French departmental marks imposed by Napoleon on Geneva in 1806 for use on gold intended for sale within the French empire, it was presumably made in the narrow window of time between the French leaving Geneva in 1813 and Napoleon's definitive defeat at Waterloo in 1815.