细节
A FINE LOUIS XV VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX WITH SECRET COMPARTMENT
BY LOUIS-GUILLAUME CASSÉ, MARKED, PARIS, 1756, WITH THE CHARGE MARK OF JULIEN BERTHE AND THE DISCHARGE MARK OF ÉLOY BRICHARD
Rectangular box, the cover, sides and base cast and chased in four-colour gold with architectural designs of princely pavillions with exotic birds, on deeply incised engraved sunburst grounds, framed by reeded c-scrolls, the cover panel sliding to the right in order to disclose a secret compartment
82 mm. wide
来源
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968) Collection, part I sold Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1962, lot 158.
出版
Clare Le Corbeiller, European and American Snuff Boxes 1730-1830, London, 1966, illustr. no. 50.
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