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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION (LOTS 117 - 141)
A FRENCH GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFFBOX
BY CHRISTIAN PETSCHLER (FL. 1814-1822), MARKED, PARIS, CIRCA 1820, WITH THE RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD, PARIS 1809-1819 AND 1819-1838, AND THE PARISIAN POST-REVOLUTIONARY UNOFFICIAL STANDARD MARK FOR 18-CARAT GOLD, ALSO WITH AN INDISTINCT MARK
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A FRENCH GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFFBOX
BY CHRISTIAN PETSCHLER (FL. 1814-1822), MARKED, PARIS, CIRCA 1820, WITH THE RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD, PARIS 1809-1819 AND 1819-1838, AND THE PARISIAN POST-REVOLUTIONARY UNOFFICIAL STANDARD MARK FOR 18-CARAT GOLD, ALSO WITH AN INDISTINCT MARK
scallop-shaped box, the cover and base mounted à jour with blue and white dendritic moss agate panels, the sides of the cover stamped with scrolling foliage and pine-cones on a sablé band, the matted sides of the base with four panels of vertical polished gold stripes on engine-turning, divided by stamped flowers and foliage
3½ in. (90 mm.) wide
BY CHRISTIAN PETSCHLER (FL. 1814-1822), MARKED, PARIS, CIRCA 1820, WITH THE RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD, PARIS 1809-1819 AND 1819-1838, AND THE PARISIAN POST-REVOLUTIONARY UNOFFICIAL STANDARD MARK FOR 18-CARAT GOLD, ALSO WITH AN INDISTINCT MARK
scallop-shaped box, the cover and base mounted à jour with blue and white dendritic moss agate panels, the sides of the cover stamped with scrolling foliage and pine-cones on a sablé band, the matted sides of the base with four panels of vertical polished gold stripes on engine-turning, divided by stamped flowers and foliage
3½ in. (90 mm.) wide
Provenance
with Bulgari, Rome.
Christie's, London, 7 December 2004, lot 10.
Christie's, London, 7 December 2004, lot 10.
Brought to you by
David McLachlan