A gold and enamel snuff box, 19th century in earlier taste
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
rectangular with cut corners, the lid centred with an en grisaille enamel medallion of two putti playing with a bird, within a brightly-coloured flower wreath and crowned with a striped white and red ribbon, on an enamel ground simulating lapis lazuli, in a shaped gold frame, the translucent dark green enamel ground over reeded engine-turning set with chased gold rosettes to each corner, the outer chased borders decorated in opaque white and translucent dark green enamel, the sides and base with matching decoration, the interior of the lid engraved with a presentation inscription reading: 'To Francis Maria (Vernon) Warren/ from her Husband/ A Token of his/ Unceasing Affection/and/Unvaried Respect/ Augt 25th 1802/Augt 25th 1827', French prestige marks including charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache (1774-1780), date letter P for 1778,
7,6cm., 3 in. wide
overall weight. 200 gr, 6.43 oz
poids brut. 200 gr, 6,43 oz
Mrs. Meyer Sassoon;
Sir A. Chester Beatty, 1962, no. 169;
Christie's London, 28 June 1972, lot 31
The Art of the Goldsmith and the Jeweler, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1968, no. 99
R. & M. Norton, A History of Gold Snuff Boxes, London, 1938, pl. 31;
A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, no. 402;
Clare LeCorbeiller, European and American Snuff Boxes, London, 1966, no. 183
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