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A two-coloured gold and enamel snuff box, Joseph-Etienne Blerzy, Paris 1774/1775

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

rectangular with cut corners, the lid inset with a glazed gold relief chased with five putti as allegories of stone masonry, literature, painting and sculpture, on a translucent dark blue enamel ground over bands of wavy engine-turning, the mounts with chased acanthus borders flanked by opaque white enamel bands, the sides decorated en suite, the angles further decorated with fluted Ionic columns in gold, maker’s mark, charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, Paris date letter L for 1774, the left rim numbered: 234,

8 cm; 3 1/8 in. wide

overall weight 145 gr, 4,66 oz

Christie's London, 3 July 2019, lot 63 (Property from a European Private Collection)

Joseph-Etienne Blerzy was born on 8 June 1735 and apprenticed on 27 February 1750 to François-Joachim Aubert, a goldsmith who specialised in mounting tortoiseshell and lacquer snuff boxes. Aubert also acted as sponsor in 1768 when Blerzy became master. After several shops at different locations, he is recorded in the Almanach de Commerce in 1806 at the rue du Coq St. Honoré, where he moved to before 1798 and worked together with his brother Etienne-Lucien Blerzy.

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