A three-colour gold and enamel snuff box, Jean-Joseph Barrière, Paris, 1776
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November 10, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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A three-colour gold and enamel snuff box, Jean-Joseph Barrière, Paris, 1776
oval, the lid later applied with an enamel miniature, French school, circa 1775, of Venus and Cupid playing with a dog and a cockerel before a fountain, corded gold frame, surrounded by translucent amber enamel over scale engine-turning, within borders of green enamel leaves alternating with chased roses, the sides and base similarly decorated, with an additional laurel border and two-coloured gold dividers, maker's mark, charge and discharge marks of Jean Baptiste Fouache (1774-1780), Paris date letter N for 1776, the rim numbered: 1544
7cm., 2¾in. wide
Jean-Joseph Barrière became master in 1763, sponsored by Henri Delobel, after having been apprenticed to Charles-Nicolas-Loys Dumossay from 1750. He worked on the Pont Notre-Dame until 1786, when his shop had to be closed down for building works on the bridge, forcing him to move his workshop to the rue Coq Saint-Honoré, where he remained until at least 1793. Barrière was a productive goldsmith – eight of his boxes are to be found in the collection of Fürst Carl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis, most of them purchased directly after they were made (Lorenz Seelig, Golddosen des 18. Jahrhunderts aus dem Besitz der Fürsten von Thurn und Taxis, Munich, 2007, nos. 7, 8, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 25), and the musée du Louvre holds ten of his boxes, whilst both the Wallace and Gilbert collections also own several examples.
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