A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

细节
A SWISS ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY GUIDON, RÉMOND & GIDE, MARKED, GENEVA, CIRCA 1800

Rectangular box with canted corners, the cover inset with an enamel miniature depicting Bacchic followers preparing a sacrifice, painted en grisaille on an opalescent blue ground, within an octagonal burnished gold frame, set on a black enamelled reserve painted with white leaf garlands, flanked by two rectangular panels enamelled with an amphora and a thyrsos, the corners of the lid engraved with scrolling foliage framed by opaque white enamel bands, the sides and base enamelled in translucent blue on a horizontally wavy guilloché ground, the canted corners engraved on gold with classical heads on navette-shaped black enamelled reserves
97 mm. wide
来源
C. H. T. Hawkins Collection, London
His Sale, Christie's, London, 22-25 March 1904, lot 1993, sold 62 pounds to McLean