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A jewelled gold and enamel snuff box, Marchand & Compagnie, Hanau, circa 1775

Estimate

9,000 - 12,000 EUR

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Description

oval, the lid centred with an oval enamel plaque painted with a young flower seller and a male companion near a fountain, in a ribbon-crowned rose-cut diamond-set frame, the ground chased with flower garlands on a polished ground, the sides and base decorated to match and further chased with trophies of love or music and allegories of the harvest, later diamond-set thumbpiece, maker's mark within sprigs, the left rim numbered: 100, post-1918 French eagle's head control mark for 18 ct,


7.1 cm; 2 7/8 in. wide

overall weight 103 grams; 3.63 oz.