A Park Avenue Treasury: The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection

A Park Avenue Treasury: The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 213. A Three-Colored Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Aléxandre Magnin, Geneva, Circa 1820.

A Three-Colored Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Aléxandre Magnin, Geneva, Circa 1820

No reserve

Session begins in

June 18, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Bid

7,000 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