Details
Of cassolette form, the shaped upper section applied with flowers and small masks, one of which opens a hidden drawer, and various roundels and diamonds inlaid with amethyst, lapis lazuli, and other stones and agates, above a rectangular base with scrolling corbels, flanking a further mask and hidden drawer, the sides with porphyry and lapis lazuli panels, on ivory feet, the applied flowers probably later, with a Baronet's wax seal to the underside
183⁄4 in. (22 cm.) high; 81⁄2 in. (21.5 cm.) wide; 4 in. (10 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Claude Aguttes, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 19 October 2012, lot 320 ($12,750).
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