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A Louis XV varicolor gold and enamel snuff box, Jean-Joseph Barrière, charge and export discharge of Julien Alaterre, Paris, 1772
Estimate
55,000 - 65,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- length 3in. (7.8cm)
rectangular with cut corners, decorated with panels of translucent royal blue enamel on striped guilloché ground, chased with borders of swags of berried husks with fluted pilasters at the angles, the cover mounted below a mask with an enamel miniature of a vestal making a sacrifice, the rim stamped 1037
Provenance
Bulgari, Rome