A two-colour gold and enamel snuff box, probably Daniel Marchand & Co., Hanau, circa 1785
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May 26, 12:06 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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A two-colour gold and enamel snuff box, probably Daniel Marchand & Co., Hanau
circa 1785
of oval form, the lid applied with an oval enamel miniature painted en grisaille with a pastoral subject within a chased laurel frame, the ground of opaque green enamel framed by a lavender enamel and chased gold flowered and scalloped border, the sides and base with oval panels engraved with musical trophies on lavender within green enamel grounds, French prestige marks including DM conjoined and K crowned, charge mark of Julien Alaterre, the right rim with Hanau 18ct bird head control, the left numbered: 2329
8.2cm, 3 1/4 in. wide
Lorenz Seelig has so far identified three marks attributed to the Hanau jeweller, enameller and goldsmith Daniel Marchand (1733-1794) of which the present is perhaps the most tenuous. The mark also appears on a magnificent Hanau snuff box in the Louvre (Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris,1981, no. 543) with painting attributed to the enameller Ignaz Peter Krafft. For further information and illustrations of the three marks, see Seelig, ‘Eighteenth century Hanau gold boxes’, Silver Society of Canada Journal, 2015, vol. 18, figs. 24, 25 and 27.
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