14 - Rectangular snuffbox in 3rd-title gold (750 parts per thousand) with rounded corners

Rectangular snuffbox in 3rd-title gold (750 parts per thousand) with rounded corners Oval miniature portrait of a young woman The lid, which opens along its length via a hinge, is inlaid with an oval miniature portrait of a young woman (previously identified as Marie Anne Christine of Bavaria, Madame la Dauphine), painted in enamel on gold, framed in gold on an amati background, beneath a slightly domed glass cover with an oval gold border accented by a blue enamel fillet. The body of the snuffbox is decorated with a mosaic-style guilloché pattern of slightly raised dots, and the edges are chased with a frieze of blue-enameled rosettes on an amati background. Very good condition, with minute chips in the blue enamel. Paris, 1819–1838. Goldsmith: Victoire Boizot (active 1808–after 1819), widow of Etienne Lucien Blerzy. Numbered “1177” (stamped) and “162” (engraved). Miniature by the workshop of Jean I Petitot (Geneva, 1607–Vevey, 1691). H. 2.6 x W. 2.4 cm (miniature). H. 1.9 x W. 8.9 x D. 5.3 cm. Gross weight: 163.4 g. Provenance - Martial Lapeyre Collection (1904–1984). - Fondation Napoléon (Paris) following the bequest by Martial Lapeyre in 1984. Exhibitions - Philippe Hoch (ed.), Splendors of the Empire. Around Napoleon and the Imperial Court, exhibition catalog, Manderen, Château de Malbrouck (March 15, 2009–August 31, 2009), Éditions Serpenoise, 2009, p. 85. - Bernard Chevallier (ed.), Napoleone: Imperial Splendor—The Treasures of the Fondation Napoléon, exhibition catalog, Rome, Museo Napoleonico (February 15, 2008–May 25, 2008) & Portoferraio, Museo nazionale delle residenze napoleoniche (June 12, 2008–September 12, 2008), Éditions Sillabe, 2008, p. 191.