Important Gold Boxes from a Private European Family Collection
A gold and enamel snuff box, probably Geneva, mid-nineteenth century, with Russian import marks
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May 16, 02:00 PM GMT
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5,000 - 7,000 CHF
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Description
rectangular, the lid enamelled with a young couple in folkloristic attire frolicking by a balustrade in in Gothic style below brightly-enamelled lancet windows, engraved gold Corinthian columns and vine leaves on a reeded ground, the waisted sides and base enamelled with colourful trefoils and geometric ornaments or plain cartouches formed of shapes reminiscent of onion domes, within in opaque black enamel borders, the left rim with St. Petersburg import mark AT with a fleur-de-lys to centre, town mark and standard,
7.3 cm; 2 ⅞ in. wide
For another gold and enamel boîte-à-cathédrale of similar style and composition, also decorated in 'gothick' taste, see A. Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, pl. 514, p. 252.
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