Gold Boxes, Silver and Ceramics
Gold Boxes, Silver and Ceramics
A four-colour gold boîte-à-miniature, Arthur Goossens, Paris, 1847-1863,
Auction Closed
November 10, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A four-colour gold boîte-à-miniature, Arthur Goossens, Paris, 1847-1863,
oval, the lid inset with a miniature of a ball scene at Versailles in earlier taste, circle of van Blarenberghe, circa 1775, bearing spurious signature and date B.lan fils 1769, within a chased floral border, the sides and base centred with elaborately chased medallions of varicolour gold scrolling foliage or an urn, surrounded by reeded engine-turning with pellets in the taste of French or Hanau boxes from 1770-75, maker's mark in vertical lozenge, post-1838 French standard mark
8.9cm., 3½in. wide
Walter and Catalina von Pannwitz Collection;
thence by descent
thence by descent
The bijoutier Arthur Goossens entered his maker's mark on 27 September 1847. He was based in 22 rue Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois until 10 August 1863. Little is known about Goossens, but his mark appears on a number of high quality presentation boxes, among them several Imperial French examples. For a presentation box applied with the cipher of Napoleon III, struck with Goossens' mark and retailed by Lemonnier, Joaillier de la Couronne, see Sotheby's London, 6 September 1995, lot 32.