Details
Ovale à décor guilloché de filets horizontaux et pois encadrés par des rubans torsadés sur fond sablé, les panneaux latéraux flanqués de vases de fleurs et fruits, poinçons dans le couvercle, le fond et le côté intérieur: charge, lettre-date (v) et maître-orfèvre, sur la gorge: décharge
L.: 6.5 cm. (212 in.)
81 gr. (2 oz. 12 dwt.)
Provenance
Vente Christie's, South Kensington, 27 avril 1989, lot 335.
FURTHER DETAILS
A LOUIS XVI VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY NICOLAS MARGUERITE, PARIS, 1783
Oval with panels engine-turned with pellets against striated ground, within entwined ribbons borders, the walls divided by vases of flowers, marked inside the cover, base and side: charge, date-letter (v), maker's mark; on flange: decharge
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