Ingot shape, the lid set with three enamel plaques under glass painted en camée in sepia on opaline glass in the manner of Jacques-Joseph de Gault, with in the centre a sacrifice to Hymen, and putti on the each side, the cover, side and underside enamelled in translucent blue scattered with pellet and star paillons within red enamel beaded border and white enamel foliate border
3¹⁄₂ in. (90 mm.) long

Rene Fribourg.
The Rene Fribourg Collection IV; Sotheby's, London, 14 October 1963, lot 325.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Zurich, 17 May 1979, lot 100 (CHF 16,000).

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