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A two-coloured gold and enamel snuff box, 19th century in earlier taste

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18,000 - 25,000 EUR

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Description

elongated oval, all sides decorated in translucent salmon-coloured enamel over chevron engine-turning, the lid later applied with an earlier oval portrait miniature of Anne of Austria, school of Jean Petitot, chased borders of rose-gold acanthus interwined with gold laurel on an opaque white ground, the sides further embellished with Ionic column dividers hung with chased garlands, French prestige marks including a maker’s mark purporting to be that of Joseph-Etienne Blerzy, charge and discharge marks for Julien Alaterre, Paris date letter K,


9 cm; 3 1/2 in. wide

overall weight 145 grams; 5.11 oz.