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Property from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection

A two-coloured gold and enamel snuff box, 19th century in earlier taste

Lot Closed

May 16, 02:44 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 CHF

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Lot Details

Description

rectangular with cut corners, the lid centred with an enamel plaque of two female figures by an altar of love, in a chased gold frame crowned by a classical mask, surrounded by translucent dark blue enamel over bands of wavy reeded engine-turning, the gold borders chased with berry and husk garlands, French prestige marks including maker's mark purporting to be that of Jean-Joseph Barrière, charge and discharge marks of Julien Alaterre, date letter, the rim further numbered: 1037


7.6 cm; 3 in. wide

Sotheby's, Geneva, May 25-27, 1993, lot 119;

Christie's New York, 19 Apr 2002, lot 35 (the Property of a Lady)