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A small gold-mounted bloodstone snuff box, Daniel Gouers, Paris, 1733/34

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

circular, the lid carved in bloodstone with a figure of a reclining pug, the reeded gold mounts with a slender thumbpiece, the sides set with raised bloodstone plaques within gold frames, stepped gold footrim, the front of the rim signed ‘Gouers A Paris’, Paris date letter R, charge and discharge marks of Hubert Louvet (1732-1738),


4.2 cm., 1 ⅝ in. diam.