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Lot 201 |
Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000 |
| A gold and enamel snuff box of oval form, French prestige marks including maker's mark II, the rim engraved A Q de la Bourdonnaye, the lid inset with an enamel miniature of Louis XIV, attributed to Jean Petitot, the spandrel, sides and base enamelled in steel blue over engine turning within enamelled foliate borders, 7cm (2.75") wide
Provenance: F N Ashcroft Esq and Mrs O S Ashcroft, Sotheby's, 7 May 1946, Lot 81. The miniature taken from an earlier box in the collection of Lord Beaufort
Exhibited: On loan to Victoria and Albert Museum 1924-1939
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Lot 210 |
Estimate: £10,000 - 15,000 |
| A Louis XVI enamelled gold snuff box by Jean-Baptiste Marie (fl. 1769-1788), marked, Paris, 1778/1779, with charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, later struck with two post 1864 French import marks, oval, the base and side panels enamelled in translucent caramel-colour on an engine turned ground, the cover with oval portrait plaque painted en grisaille with Joseph II (1741-1790), Holy Roman Emperor, flanked by a nude child with laurel crown and the Habsburg eagle with globe, sceptre and sword, the gold border enamelled with green leaves and chased with flowers surmounted by a bow cresting, the side pilasters hung with green enamelled swags, the frosted gold borders with twisted green and opaque ribbons enclosing pellets, 8cm (3.25") wide
Provenance: Christie's London, 22 May 2001, Lot 152 |
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Lot 211 |
Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000 |
| A Louis XVI gold mounted enamel and tortoiseshell bonbonniere,
charge mark of Jean-Baptiste Fouache, Paris 1774-1780, circular, the cover, sides and base in blue guilloche enamel with gold paillon stars, the cover set with an oval plaque painted en grisaille with tritons by a fountain on a plum ground with chased and engraved borders, tortoiseshell lined, 7.5cm (3") diameter
Provenance: The Property of a Gentleman, Christie's, 11 May 1994, Lot 129
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Lot 216 |
Estimate: £800 - 1,200 |
| A late 18th Century English necessaire, the green ground with raised white ornament and panels decorated with pastoral scenes to the sides and Venus to the lid, the coloured panels framed by raised scrolling gilt ornament, the hinged lid enclosing a fitted gilt metal interior with two enamel capped scent bottles and two nibs, 7cm (2.75") wide |
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Lot 218 |
Estimate: £800 - 1,200 |
| A late 18th Century English enamel snuff box, modelled and coloured as a recumbent leopard, the hinged domed lid decorated with a scene of figures and a boat in a landscape with Classical ruins, 5cm (2") wide |
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Lot 222 |
Estimate: £800 - 1,200 |
| A late 18th Century English enamel snuff box, modelled and decorated as a crouching hare on a grassy hump, the gilt metal mounts engraved E L , the hinged domed lid with a panel showing dogs catching a hare in a landscape with windmill, framed by polychromatic scrolling decoration, 9cm (3.5") long |
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Lot 224 |
Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500 |
| A pair of English enamel candlesticks, South Staffordshire circa 1775, the detachable nozzles above bulbous stems set on circular bases, the whole on a pink ground with painted pastoral vignettes and raised white ornamentation, with gilt metal mounts, 31cm (12") high |
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Lot 225 |
Estimate: £17,000 - 19,000 |
| A fine 19th Century Swiss singing bird box circa 1830, in silver, gilt and enamel, rectangular, the oval enamel cover depicting a sailing boat on a lake with snow covered mountains beyond and a house in the foreground, the reverse decorated a bouquet of flowers, the singing bird with coloured plumage standing to the edge of a pierced floral and foliate base, the fusee movement stamped Charles Bruguier ą Geneve and numbered 77, the oval cover within a stippled surround finely applied acanthus and floral scrolls, the border with continuous band of foliate and acanthus scrolls, the front, back and sides engine turned and with acanthus decoration, the base with central cartouche and surround of scrolling acanthus, the back with hinged compartment for a key, 9cm x 6cm (3.5"x 2.25"), complete with brass handled key and original black morocco leather case: Charles Bruguier 1788-1862 |
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