A LOUIS XVI THREE-COLOR GOLD ETUI, NICOLAS-JEAN-BAPTISTE CHOCONAIN-DELAUNAY, PARIS, 1778 |

with oval vignettes chased with a parrot, rabbit, love altar with pair of doves, and a hound by a monument, on engine-turned ground with stars and dots, plain base

good condition, the plain base panel may be later
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In Le Poinçon de Paris, p. 269, Nocq records Choconain-Delaunay at Pont au Change until 1787 and notes a theft from him, on February 17, 1782, which included 18 gold boxes for men and women, 12 etuis, 30 cane handles and jewelry. The culprit was not found.