Lot 27
Lot 27
THE COLLECTION OF ADOLPHUS ANDREWS, JR. AND EMILY TAYLOR ANDREWS
A LOUIS XVI ENAMEL AND GOLD ETUI

MARK OF JOSEPH-ETIENNE BLERZY, PARIS, 1783-1784

Price Realised USD 4,032
Estimate
USD 2,000 - USD 3,000
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A LOUIS XVI ENAMEL AND GOLD ETUI

MARK OF JOSEPH-ETIENNE BLERZY, PARIS, 1783-1784

Price Realised USD 4,032
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Price Realised USD 4,032
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Cylindrical, the body enameled with panels of translucent blue over an engine turned ground and painted with gold stars within borders of trailing green foliage and opalescent enamel pearls, the top of the cover with a green rosette, the underside engraved with two coats-of-arms accollé beneath a Marquis coronet, marked on inside of cover with charge mark, date letter U, and maker's mark, the flange further with maker's mark and décharge mark
434 in. (12 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Etude-Tajan, Paris, 17 June 1997, lot 3.
Property from the Estate of Albin Salton; Christie's, New York, 19 April 2002, lot 6.
Acquired from John Jaffa Antiques, London, 2004.
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Lot Essay

The coats-of-arms on the present lot include those of a husband on the right, "azure, a chevron argent, in chief two antique crowns, base three mullets,” probably for Robert, and wife on the left, "azure, a chevron or, in chief a hunting horn, in base a dove with an olive branch in its beak."

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