A FRENCH RESTAURATION GOLD, HARDSTONE AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX
A FRENCH RESTAURATION GOLD, HARDSTONE AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX

细节
A FRENCH RESTAURATION GOLD, HARDSTONE AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX
PARIS, 1819-1838. MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT

Oval box with bombé sides, the slightly raised lid inset with a Swiss oval enamel plaque mounted à-jour, depicting a bouquet of flowers with a sculpted stone fountain and a pavillion in the background, the cover framed with a stamped acanthus border, the sides cast with mythological scenes, the base similarly bordered and centred by a brown agate plaque mounted à jour, with slightly raised plain gold thumbpiece
61 mm. wide

拍品专文

The enamellist Albert Feller, from Geneva, is mentioned in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig, XI, 1915, p. 373 verbo Feller, Frank.