Gold Boxes & Fabergé

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1546. A small jewelled gold and enamel snuff box, Oltramare family, Geneva, circa 1815, and a two-coloured gold and enamel snuff box, late nineteenth century in Paris 1770s style.

A small jewelled gold and enamel snuff box, Oltramare family, Geneva, circa 1815, and a two-coloured gold and enamel snuff box, late nineteenth century in Paris 1770s style

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Lot Closed

May 13, 10:45 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

the first, rectangular, the lid centred with an oval split-pearl framed enamel plaque painted with a flower bouquet, on engine-turned gold ground, within outer blue enamel foliate border decorated with turquoise cabochons, the sides and base similarly decorated, maker's mark O in a horizontal lozenge, probably for a member of the Oltramare family, French departmental petite garantie 1809-1815, 2.9 cm., 1 1/8 in. wide;

the second, oval, the lid centred with an en grisaille enamel plaque painted with an allegory of friendship, within a chased husk frame, surrounded by translucent orange enamel over wavy engine-turning, framed by an interlaced scrolling leaf and laurel border on opaque white enamel, the sides similarly decorated below a chased border of alternating flowerheads and scrolls, maker's mark, petite vache mark for export 1768-1774, later export marks, the left rim numbered: 136, 6.5 cm, 2 1/2 in. wide

For this maker's mark, see Ian White & Julia Clarke, The Majesty of the Chinese-Market Watch, London, 2019, p. 75 and footnote 39.

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