An unusual gold and enamel snuff basket, Charles Barnabé, Paris, 1763/64
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
of navette shape, the lid base decorated with crimson enamel medallions painted en grisaille with frolicking putti, within gold borders, surrounded by a translucent dark green enamel ground decorated with gold lobes, the side of the lid further painted with a dark green Greek key border and applied with chased gold ribbons from which gold basket handles emerge, later gold footrim, rubbed maker’s mark, charge mark of Jean-Jacques Prévost (1762-1768), Paris date letter, later Vienna control mark, restoration to enamel throughout,
In a modern fitted leather case,
6.9 cm., 2 ¾ in. wide
With Sapjo, Monte-Carlo, 1997, acquired by
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann (inventory no. F-222);
Christies London, The Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection Gold Boxes, 11 April 2002, Lot 901
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