A Three-Colored Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Aléxandre Magnin, Geneva, Circa 1820
No reserve
Auction Closed
June 18, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
rectangular, the lid applied with an oval enamel plaque depicting Jean-Baptiste Tilliard's engraving Telemaque ouvre son coeur à Mentor sur son inclination pour Antiope after Charles Monnet (1785), on a sablé ground chased with scrollwork and cornucopiae, the engine-turned base repeating the decoration around a central engine-turned panel, maker's mark, town mark
Length 3 1/2 in.
9 cm
Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1992, lot 306;
Christie's London, 27 November 2007, lot 50
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