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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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)
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