拍品 79
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A LOUIS XV TWO-COLOUR GOLD BOÎTE-À-MINIATURES
A LOUIS XV TWO-COLOUR GOLD BOÎTE-À-MINIATURES

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A LOUIS XV TWO-COLOUR GOLD BOÎTE-À-MINIATURES
BY NICOLAS MARGUERIT, MARKED, PARIS, 1775/1776, WITH THE DISCHARGE MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE, THE MINIATURES IN THE MANNER OF THE VAN BLARENBERGHES

Circular snuff-box, the cover, base and four side panels inset with six glazed gouache on paper miniatures depicting a ball in a colonnaded hall, a fire-work display and, on the sides, carriages and sedans, the cagework mounts chased with stylized acanthus and laurel on sablé bands
48 mm. diam.

拍品专文

The miniature on the lid is inspired by the engraving depicting the festivities in the ball-room of 2 June 1771 constructed by Heussée for the Count of Marmara, Sardinian Ambassador in Paris, on the occasion of the marriage of the Comte de Provence, later King Louis XVIII, with Marie-Thérèse of Savoy, Princess of Sardinia.
The base is inset with a miniature inspired by Cochins's engraving depicting the firework given by the city of Paris in the castle of Meudon on 3 September 1735 celebrating the recovery of the Dauphin.