Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection
A gold box, François-Siméon Charbonné, Paris, 1758/1759
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May 16, 01:40 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 CHF
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Description
of ingot form, all sides decorated with a complex engine-turned scale pattern interspersed with flattened barley-twist bands and polished wavy frames, the interior of the lid later engraved with the initials WW, maker's mark, charge and discharge marks of Jean-Jacques Prévost, Paris date letter s, the left rim numbered: 47,
8.1 cm; 3 ¼ in. wide
François-Siméon Charbonné was a gold box maker active in Paris from 1737 until at least 1766. In alignment with the trends in demand at different times throughout his long career, his maker's mark can be found on both gold and hardstone boxes from the late 1730s, as well as finely engine-turned examples from the 1750s (for the former, see a gold-mounted puddingstone box, sold Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2016, lot 522; the latter exemplified in a finely engine-turned gold box dated 1753, sold Bonham's London, 18 October 2023, lot 61).
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