15 - Round black tortoiseshell box with gold mountings (750 parts per thousand)

Round black tortoiseshell box with gold mountings (750 parts per thousand) The lid is inlaid with an oval miniature portrait of King Louis XIV shown in a right-facing bust in armor, wearing the Order of the Holy Spirit, painted in enamel on gold, encircled in gold on an amati background, under a domed glass cover with a half-bezel of silver. Lined with gold on the inside. Good condition; the lower inner gold border is missing. Paris, 1786–1787 (the lid is unhallmarked). Goldsmith: Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette (active 1779–1839). The miniature is attributed to Jean I Petitot (Geneva, 1607–Vevey, 1691) or to Henri Toutin (Châteaudun, 1614–Paris, after 1683). H. 2.3 x W. 2 cm (miniature). H. 2.3 x D. 7.7 cm (box). Gross weight: 113.5 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. Related Works - Jean I Petitot (attributed to), Portrait of King Louis XIV, enamel miniature, H. 2.6 x W. 2.1 cm, formerly in the Ennery Collection, Musée du Louvre, inv. 35711. - Jean I Petitot, Portrait of King Louis XIV, enamel miniature, on a gold snuffbox by Montauban, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, inv. 57.254. - Jean I Petitot (attributed to), Portrait of King Louis XIV, enamel miniature, mounted on a gold and enamel snuffbox, c. 1790, formerly in the Schlichting Collection, Musée du Louvre, inv. OA 6860. - Henri Toutin, Portrait of King Louis XIV, enamel miniature signed on the back “Toutin f(ecit),” on a gold snuffbox with three portraits, Wallace Collection, London, inv. G 75.