A SWISS JEWELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD AND GILT-COPPER SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A FRENCH LOUIS XVI PORCELAIN PLAQUE

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A SWISS JEWELLED VARI-COLOUR GOLD AND GILT-COPPER SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A FRENCH LOUIS XVI PORCELAIN PLAQUE
THE BOX GENEVA, CIRCA 1840, WITH PRESTIGE MARKS, THE SÈVRES PORCELAIN MINIATURE SIGNED AND DATED ON THE OBVERSE "DODIN 1786.", THE REVERSE WITH THE BLUE SÈVRES MARK TWO ENLACED "L"S ENCLOSING THE DATE LETTERS "II" FOR 1786 WITH DODIN'S LETTER "K" BELOW

Circular box, the hinged cover inset with a circular porcelain plaque finely painted with Telemachus and Calypso, framed by a band of diamonds twisted with two gold laurel wreaths on a sablé ground, the sides similary diamond-studded and chased in four-colour gold with four reserves containing trophies of Music, Gardening, Love and Harvest, the dividing pilasters chased with urns and floral swags, the matted base chased in four-colour gold with love attributes, twisted laurel wreaths and fluted circles
100 mm. diam

来源

Hawkins Collection
Asher Wertheimer, London
His sale, Christie's, London, 16-17 June 1920, lot 183, sold 168 pounds to Good & Fox

拍品专文

Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734-1803) worked for the Sèvres porcelain factory 1754-1802 and specialised in plaques as the present one. He participated in the decoration of Tsarina Katharina II of Russia's great Porcelain Service (1778-1779).
Rosalind Savill (The Wallace Collection - Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, III, pp. 1029-1032 gives further information of Dodin and mentions a porcelain box signed and dated as the present one and painted with the same subject, described in a letter of 1961 to Sir Francis Watson. For an identical representation of Telemachus and Calypso and its iconographic source, see lot 56.