详情
In the French Gothic revival style, rectangular box with bombé sides, the cover divided by white enamelled Gothic towers, the compartments in the centre and at the outsides inset with a rectangular gold plaque with arched top boldly chased with trophies of War on a frosted ground, flanking two taille d'épargne gold trees on black enamel grounds, the base centred by a rectangular reserve depicting gold zig-zags on a black enamelled ground, within a gold border, framed by a white wavy bank, the convex sides with taille d'épargne stylised acanthus leaves on a black enamel ground, slightly raised gold thumbpiece, marked on flange: 3rd standard, guarantee, maker and later control marks
278 in. (7,4 cm.) long
gross weight 3 oz. 8 dwt. (107 gr.)
来源
Christie's, Geneva, 19 November 1996, lot 232.
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French gold snuff-boxes "à la Cathédrale" are rare, and a similar specimen is illustrated in A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth-Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, colour pl. 425 and 426.

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