拍品 67
67
A DIRECTOIRE MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND TINTED SHELL GOLD SNUFF-BOX
A DIRECTOIRE MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND TINTED SHELL GOLD SNUFF-BOX

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A DIRECTOIRE MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND TINTED SHELL GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY ADRIEN-JEAN-MAXIMILIEN VACHETTE, MARKED, PARIS, 1798-1809, WITH THE "PETITE GARANTIE" MARK FOR PARIS, 1809-1819 AND THE "PETITE RÉCENSE" MARK FOR PARIS, 1819-1838, THE CENTRAL PLAQUE BERLIN, CIRCA 1750

Oblong box with rounded edges, the cover inset with a rectangular German Rococo gold plaque encrusted with tinted shell, bone and mother-of-pearl on an engraved diaper ground with a peasant woman and her dog, the panel flanked by sablé hemi-cycles chased with an anthemion and leaf pattern, the base similarly decorated flanking a panel of wavy engine-turning, the sides with four matching guilloché reserves, the flange engraved Vachette à Paris. 20K.... 5
96 mm. wide

拍品专文

For other gold boxes by Vachette, see lots 38 and 95.
Another example for Vachette re-using mid-18th century tinted shell and mother-of-pearl encrusted plaques, see Serge Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 359.