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Lot 126
  • 126

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
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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