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Small circular (tobacco?) rock crystal box set in yellow gold (750) with green, red and white enamel decoration of laurel leaf friezes, punctuated with a few flowers, one of the friezes forming an openwork garland. Line of simulated half-pearls in white enamel. Hinged lid. Goldsmith's hallmark: N. ? PARIS, Charge [A.R.] and Discharge [dog's head] marks for Nov. 1774-July 1780 and Jurande [o] for 1777-1778. Leaf engraved with "Du petit Dunkerque", the name of Charles-Raymond GRANCHEZ's store in Paris. Gross weight: 79.8 g. - H.: 28 mm - Diam.: 52 mm. Crystal glass of the lid reattached with glue. Wear and a few scratches; joins, a few chips and missing enamels. A box very similar in materials and decoration, of the same date (1777-1778), with the same dealer's signature on the rabbet, and whose silversmith is unknown, is in the Musée du Louvre [Inv. OA 7698]. The merchant-mercier Charles-Raymond GRANCHEZ (or GRANCHER / ? -1813), originally from the Nord region of France, ran a store under the name "Au petit Dunkerque" on quai Conti in Paris between 1767 and 1789, then rue de Richelieu between 1789 and 1813. Jeweler to Queen Marie-Antoinette, he also sold objets de vertu, crockery, furniture and imported goods, notably from England... The boxes he sold bear the handwritten inscription engraved on the rabbet: "Au petit Dunkerque" or "Du petit Dunkerque".
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Small circular (tobacco?) rock crystal box set in yellow gold (750) with green, red and white enamel decoration of laurel leaf friezes, punctuated with a few flowers, one of the friezes forming an openwork garland. Line of simulated half-pearls in white enamel. Hinged lid. Goldsmith's hallmark: N. ? PARIS, Charge [A.R.] and Discharge [dog's head] marks for Nov. 1774-July 1780 and Jurande [o] for 1777-1778. Leaf engraved with "Du petit Dunkerque", the name of Charles-Raymond GRANCHEZ's store in Paris. Gross weight: 79.8 g. - H.: 28 mm - Diam.: 52 mm. Crystal glass of the lid reattached with glue. Wear and a few scratches; joins, a few chips and missing enamels. A box very similar in materials and decoration, of the same date (1777-1778), with the same dealer's signature on the rabbet, and whose silversmith is unknown, is in the Musée du Louvre [Inv. OA 7698]. The merchant-mercier Charles-Raymond GRANCHEZ (or GRANCHER / ? -1813), originally from the Nord region of France, ran a store under the name "Au petit Dunkerque" on quai Conti in Paris between 1767 and 1789, then rue de Richelieu between 1789 and 1813. Jeweler to Queen Marie-Antoinette, he also sold objets de vertu, crockery, furniture and imported goods, notably from England... The boxes he sold bear the handwritten inscription engraved on the rabbet: "Au petit Dunkerque" or "Du petit Dunkerque".
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