A gold, burgau shell snuff box, 19th century in earlier style

A gold, burgau shell snuff box, 19th century in earlier style

oval, engine-turned with diagonal bands of scale pattern alternating with wavy decoration, the hinged lid applied with carved and inlaid raised mother-of-pearl and burgau reliefs representing a young couple in front of classical ruins and below trees, a reclining lamb next to them, the front side decorated with a washer woman leaning over a bridge in riverscape, flanked by shimmering trees, a sheep and its lambs to the left, the reverse applied with a two pastoral figures idling near a mother of pearl staircase within detailed landscape, the rim inscribed: 'George a Paris', French prestige marks including charge and discharge mark of Eloi Brichard (1756-1762), rubbed maker’s mark JC, Paris date letter, further numbered: 971, later French post-1864 import marks and pre-1921 Austrian import mark

width 3¼ in; 8.2 cm.

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Tabatière en or et burgau, XIXe siècle dans le goût du XVIIIe siècle

ornée d'un motif de diagonales et d'ondulations guillochées, le couvercle appliqué de reliefs sculptés et incrustés représentant un couple devant des ruines classiques, la face avant ornée d'une lavandière, deux figures pastorales dans un paysage figurées au revers, le bord inscrit George a Paris

width 3¼ in; 8.2 cm.