A Two-Colored Gold Snuff Box, Nineteenth Century, in Mid-Eighteenth Century Paris Taste
Live auction begins on:
June 24, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
rectangular with slightly waisted sides, all sides chased with an array of reeded daffodils, tulips, frittilarias, campanulas and other spring flowers amidst scrolling leaves and stems on a sablé ground, the lid with a matching slender thumbpiece, French prestige marks including maker's mark JDB, charge and discharge mark of Antoine Leschaudel, Paris date letter E for 1745/1746,
Length 3 ⅛ in., 8 cm.
Reputedly, formerly in the collection of H.R.H. The Duke of Windsor
The present box was previously attributed to the Paris goldsmith Jean Baptiste Devos. His maker's mark does, however, indeed look different than the one seen on this box: the initials of the recorded mark are JB over D, instead of JD over B which is the case for the present lot.