Property from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection
A pearl-set gold and enamel snuff box, Geneva, circa 1785
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May 16, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 CHF
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Description
oval, the lid painted en plein with a young couple based on the stipple engraving 'Faire Emmeline' after Thomas Stothard, within fine paillon borders and split-pearl frame, matching sides and base with translucent blue enamel over zig-zag engine-turning, the base further centred with an elaborate paillon stylised flowerhead,
partially rubbed maker's mark crowned L? incuse,
7.6cm., 3 in. wide
Sotheby's London, 6 November 1997, lot 294;
Christie's, London, 27 Nov 2007, lot 41
The composition was published by John and Josaiah Boydell on 1 May 1787. It illustrated an excerpt from The Child of Elle from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, published in 1765, in which Emmeline elopes, escaping down a ladder. For another version of this composition on a box by Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Cie, see Haydn Williams, The David and Mikhail Iakobachvili Collection, vol. II, London, 2025, cat no. 115, p. 106).
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