Details
Baluster shaped, with blue guilloché enamel panels on engine-turned wavy ground scattered with pellets and set with diamond foliate mounts and oval medallion with hair braid behind glass, within light blue and white enamelled borders with gold laurel, with similar threaded cap and gold stopper, in original fitted case, marked on base and inside cap
3 in. (76 mm.) high
Gross weight: 1 oz. 9 dwt. (46 gr.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 17 April 1996, lot 17.
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James Morisset is of Huguenot descent and one of London’s most celebrated makers of enamelled gold dress-swords, boxes and objects of vertu. Praised for his enamel work en par with continental work, Morisset worked closely with his nephew Augustin Toussaint (1768–1785), a miniaturist and enameller.

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