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Property from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

A Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, Nineteenth Century in Earlier Taste

Auction Closed

June 17, 06:12 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

oval, all sides painted en plein with shaped vignettes of bouquets of peonies, tulips, convolvuluses and other flowers in ceramic vases on marbled table tops, against a stippled ground, on a ground of chased scrolls framing translucent dark green basse-taille enamel vine leaves, French prestige marks including maker's mark for Jean Ducrollay and charge and discharge marks of Julien Berthe (1750-1756)


2 ¾, 7 cm. wide

The Estate of Ailsa Mellon Bruce