A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

Lot 45
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ID 992526
Lot 45 | A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

GENEVA, CIRCA 1810, WITH INDISTINCT MAKER’S MARK POSSIBLY THAT OF JEAN-GEORGE REMOND

Rectangular with rounded corners, the cover set with a finely painted plaque depicting Aeneas and his family fleeing from Troy, with figures of Roma holding the infants Romulus and Remus, the cover, sides and base with blue and black guilloché enamel in feather pattern within chased foliate border and taille d'épargne pilasters, with original fitted leather case, marked in cover

3 5/8 in. (92 mm.) wide

gross weight 4 oz. 8 dwt. (137 gr.)





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 November 1989, lot 156.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 11 April 2003, lot 185.



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