A Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Jean George Rémond & Co., Geneva, 1804-1807
No reserve
Auction Closed
October 16, 06:35 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
rectangular, the lid applied with a hexagonal enamel plaque painted with Ariadne receiving wine from a putto, on a dark blue and black enamel ground with an unusual arch and circle pattern, the sides and base similarly decorated and with further elaborate taille d'épargne enamel anthemion and semi-circle border and flowerhead ovals to corners, maker's mark
Length 3 ⅝ in.
9.2 cm
Beaussant Lefevre, 29 November 2009, lot 418
The Huguenot Jean George Rémond was born in Hanau in 1752 where he was trained as a bijoutier. In June 1783, his application for domicile in Geneva as a foreigner was accepted. Later that same year he officially qualified as an orfèvre bijoutier, having presented an oval gold and enamel snuff box which was praised as ‘parfaitement bien faite.’ The present lot was made during this first period of Rémond's long career as one of the most important bijoutier in Geneva, before he and his business partners Laurent Guisseling and Jean Noé Lamy, both engravers from Hanau, went into partnership with Joseph Guidon and David Gide. This company for ‘la fabrication et la commerce de bijouterie’, was registered on 21 April 1796 under the name of Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Co., (Julia Clarke, ‘Swiss Snuff Boxes 1785-1835’, in: Haydn Williams, Enamels of the World, The Khalili Collections, London, 2009, p. 295; see lot 357 in this sale).
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