Details
Circulaire doublée en écaille de tortue, les côtés laqués à l’imitation d’un marbre rose et bleu, le couvercle formé d’une miniature fixé-sous-verre d’une scène de chasse, le fond serti d’une miniature sur vélin figurant une chasse au faucon, les montures en or ciselées d’un cordage, poinçons sur la gorge : charge, lettre millésimée, orfèvre et décharge
D. 7.5 cm.(3 in.)
Poids brut: 102 gr. (3 oz. 3 dwt.)
Provenance
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, Londres, 4 juillet 2018, lot 194.
FURTHER DETAILS
A LOUIS XVI GOLD MOUNTED LACQUER AND TORTOISESHELL BOITE A MINIATURES
BY CHARLES BRISSON, PARIS, 1784
Circular of dark tortoiseshell, the sides overlaid with a blue and pink coloured lacquer, the cover set with a fixé-sous-verre miniature depicting a hunting scene, the base set with a miniature on vellum depicting a falcon hunt, within rope-twist gold borders, marked on flange: charge, date-letter, maker and decharge
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