A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection
A TREASURY OF VERTU: Important Gold Boxes from a Private Family Collection
A mother of pearl snuff box with two-colour gold mounts
Auction Closed
December 10, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A mother of pearl snuff box with two-colour gold mounts
rectangular, in 18th century taste, the cagework mounts chased with acanthus and enclosing a central rosette, gold lining, French prestige marks including those for Jean-Marie Tiron, charge and discharge marks of Julien Alaterre and date letter for 1768/9, the left rim numbered 77
7.4 cm., 2 7/8 in. wide
This piece is closely related to an example formerly in the Waddesdon Collection, purchased by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1897. The box, with the maker's mark of Jean-Marie Tiron, Paris, 1765/6, is also of mother of pearl within gold cagework mounts, but is set with portraits of young girls, said to be 'Mesdames de France' (Grandjean/Piacenti/Truman/Blunt, The James A. Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, Fribourg, 1975, no. 87).