Description
Gold snuffbox 750 thousandths of oval form, with enamelled green translucent decoration on bottom guilloche of waves and of a semis of pastilles in frames of clasps of foliage and pearls enamelled green and white opalin. The frame with rectangular cartridges enamelled in translucent green on a guilloche background of waves and pastilles alternating with pilasters decorated with clasps of leaves and pearls enamelled on a sandy background. The hinged lid, decorated in the center with a polychrome oval miniature on porcelain depicting The Abduction of Helen inspired by Guido Reni, reveals a secret compartment (small accidents). Goldsmith's hallmark of Georges-Antoine Croze (active 1777-1790), load hallmark of Henri Clavel, Paris, 1780, the border numbered 466. Dim: 8 x 6 x 3 cm - Gross weight: 177,20 g Related work: a similar snuffbox, enamelled in blue on a guilloche ground called "oeil-de-perdrix" was part of the collection of Mrs. F. Meyer (see Sotheby's London, December 5, 1960, lot 67). Georges-Antoine Croze became master in Paris in December 1777, sponsored by Pierre Delobel. In 1781 he moved to rue Saint-Louis, where he remained until 1788, then to rue Filles-Saint-Thomas in 1790. He was one of the silversmiths who supplied the merchant-merchant Charles-Raymond Grancher at the small Dunkerque, quai de Conti.
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Gold snuffbox 750 thousandths of oval form, with enamelled green translucent decoration on bottom guilloche of waves and of a semis of pastilles in frames of clasps of foliage and pearls enamelled green and white opalin. The frame with rectangular cartridges enamelled in translucent green on a guilloche background of waves and pastilles alternating with pilasters decorated with clasps of leaves and pearls enamelled on a sandy background. The hinged lid, decorated in the center with a polychrome oval miniature on porcelain depicting The Abduction of Helen inspired by Guido Reni, reveals a secret compartment (small accidents). Goldsmith's hallmark of Georges-Antoine Croze (active 1777-1790), load hallmark of Henri Clavel, Paris, 1780, the border numbered 466. Dim: 8 x 6 x 3 cm - Gross weight: 177,20 g Related work: a similar snuffbox, enamelled in blue on a guilloche ground called "oeil-de-perdrix" was part of the collection of Mrs. F. Meyer (see Sotheby's London, December 5, 1960, lot 67). Georges-Antoine Croze became master in Paris in December 1777, sponsored by Pierre Delobel. In 1781 he moved to rue Saint-Louis, where he remained until 1788, then to rue Filles-Saint-Thomas in 1790. He was one of the silversmiths who supplied the merchant-merchant Charles-Raymond Grancher at the small Dunkerque, quai de Conti.
