Gold Boxes, Silver and Ceramics
Gold Boxes, Silver and Ceramics
Auction Closed
November 10, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A gold and enamel snuff box, Joseph-Etienne Blerzy, Paris, 1776
oval, the lid centred with an oval enamel medallion painted with an allegory of Justice after Angelika Kauffmann's Die Allegorie der Justitia, 1777, framed by a green and red enamel laurel border, the ground, sides and base of grey enamel over diaper-pattern engine-turning, within intertwined borders of white and red enamel beads and green leaves on a sablé ground, repeated in the dividers on the sides, maker's mark, charge and discharge mark of Jean Baptiste Fouache, Paris date letter for 1776, the rim numbered: 531
8.2cm., 3¼in. wide