Ovale à décor guilloché de filets horizontaux et ciselée de paniers de fruits tenus par des guirlandes, les bords ciselés de festons feuillagées sur fond sablé, le couvercle appliqué au centre d'un panneau rectangulaire à pans coupés figurant un lapin près d'un puits dans un paysage boisé, les panneaux latéraux ciselés d'une frise de rinceaux, poinçons dans le couvercle et le fond: maître-orfèvre
L.: 7,2 cm. (2⁷⁄₈ in.)
58 gr. (1 oz. 17 dwt.)

Vente Sotheby's, Londres, 22 octobre 1987, lot 195.

A SWISS THREE-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
GENEVA, CIRCA 1775, MAKER'S MARK M.C.
Oval with engine turned reeded ground chased with baskets of fruits held by festoons, the cover applied with rectangular panel with cut corners figuring a rabbit grazing by a well in wooded landscape, marked in cover and base with maker's mark only

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