A gold and enamel bonbonnière, Hanau or Berlin, circa 1790
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May 26, 12:14 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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A gold and enamel bonbonnière
Hanau or Berlin, circa 1790
circular, the lid applied with an oval opaque and opalescent enamel plaque painted with a spied-upon tryst, the ground enamelled in translucent blue over pellets on concentric reeding within borders of beads and foliage, French prestige marks including crowned J and T with interlaced leaves, the rim numbered: 448, in modern fitted red leather case
8.1cm. 2 1/4 in. diameter
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For a circular bonbonnière in similar taste, struck with the same cluster of marks which have been attributed either to François-Claude Théremin working with Frères Jordan in Berlin before leaving for St Petersburg in 1793 or to a so-far-unidentified goldsmith in Hanau, see Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 580.
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