Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Objets de Luxe

Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Objets de Luxe

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A three-colour gold and enamel snuff box, late 18th century

Lot Closed

November 15, 01:25 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

A three-coloured gold and enamel snuff box, late 18th century,


oval, the lid painted en plein en grisaille of varying dates with allegorical representations of arts and architecture, within a chased foliage and ovolo border on a sablé ground, the sides with garland-hung columns as dividers, the base similarly decorated and painted with four putti as an allegory, unmarked apart from one unidentified mark 

7.9 cm. 3⅛in. wide 

Christie's Geneva, 14 May 1996, Lot 337