拍品 80
80
A SWISS ENAMEL AND GOLD BONBONNIÈRE
A SWISS ENAMEL AND GOLD BONBONNIÈRE

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A SWISS ENAMEL AND GOLD BONBONNIÈRE
MAKER'S MARK "LFT", GENEVA, CIRCA 1780, BEARING PRESTIGE MARKS, THE MINIATURE ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-FRANÇOIS MARCINHÈS

Circular box with independent cover, the cover set with an oval enamel miniature after Jean-Baptiste Greuze's L'oiseau mort, framed by a laurel border in two-colour gold, the sides engraved with wavy horizontal guilloché, the base with concentric wavy engine-turning, the borders decorated with translucent yellow enamel bands and opaque white enamel stripes
52 mm. wide

拍品专文

Another enamel by the Genevan miniaturist Pierre-François Marcinhès (1739-1778) depicting the same subject, signed and dated Versoix 1770, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (illustr. in Robert Bayne-Powell, Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1985, p. 217 no. PD.45-1948). The original oil painting by Greuze, exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1765, is now in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (no. 435).