Gold Boxes, Ceramics & Silver
Gold Boxes, Ceramics & Silver
A three-colour gold snuff box, Jean-Baptiste-François Lamiral, Paris, 1788
Lot Closed
May 26, 12:05 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A three-colour gold snuff box, Jean-Baptiste-François Lamiral
Paris, 1788
of oblong form, engine-turned with mullets and pellets on wavy reeding, framed by chased leafy scroll borders, maker's mark, charge and discharge marks of Henri Clavel and Jean-François Kalendrin, date letter for 1788, in modern fitted red leather case
9.9cm., 4in. wide
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Jean-Baptiste-François Lamiral was apprenticed on 3 August 1765 to Jran Hannier, becoming master under the patronage of Pierre-Auguste-Simon Régnier, in 1787. He is recorded in the place Dauphine and subsequently rue de la Calandre and rue des Marmouzets until 1792.