Halcyon Days Enamels; Christmas 1986
CIRCA 1755-60, THE MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY
A two-colour gold and enamel snuff box, Olof Ekman, Stockholm1786of navette form, the lid inset with an oval enamel plaque painte
MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, HANAU, CIRCA 1790
BY JOSEPH-ETIENNE BLERZY (FL. 1768-1806), MARKED, WITH THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY UNOFFICIAL STANDARD MARK FOR 18 CARAT GOLD, PARIS, AND THE EXCISE MARK FOR GOLD, PARIS 1789-1809, THE FLANGE STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 57, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD
GENEVA OR HANAU, CIRCA 1785, MAKER'S MARK M & P CROWNED, LATER STRUCK WITH TWO PARISIAN POST-1838 RESTRICTED WARRANTY MARKS FOR GOLD
MAKER'S MARK J. B. C., HANAU, CIRCA 1780, CROWNED LETTER N, STRUCK WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE
gold, enamelled, oval body, ground and hinged lid with fine enamel decoration, hinged lid with oval medallion with figural scene in antique style, 8.2 x 6 x 3.8 cm, gross weight 128 g, mis-struck master’s mark and probably Viennese hallmark, c. 1790, (Lu) Superbly executed enamelled Neo-Classical snuff box.
GENEVA, CIRCA 1830
BY JOSEPH-ETIENNE BLERZY (FL. 1768-1808), MARKED, PARIS, 1781/1782, WITH THE SECOND CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF HENRI CLAVEL 1780-1782, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 238
19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK I I OR I L WITH CROWN ABOVE, WITH FRENCH SPURIOUS SILVER CHARGE MARK FOR PARIS 1762-1768
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MARK OF RENÉ-ANTOINE BAILLEUL, PARIS, 1778
ENAMEL MINIATURE AND GOLD BOX, Paris or Geneva, end of the 18th century. Yellow gold 18K, 165g. Oval box, decorated with translucent enamel in shades of dusky pink on an engine-turned background: On the cover, bottom, and compartments: Harbour scenes with several ships and Antique ruins. Finely engraved frame with polychrome enamelled flower garlands and small, oval, white medallions, additional border in light-blue. Maker's mark ALA, probably Antoine Louis Anthiaume, charge probably Henry Clavel, décharge missing. Ca. 8.6 x 6.4 x 3.3 cm. Lit. H. Nocq, les Poiçon de Paris, Vol. 1, pages 14-15. With case. Gelbgold 18K, 165g. Ovale Dose, verziert mit transluzidem Email in Altrosa-Tönen auf guillochiertem Grund: Auf Deckel, Boden und Reserven Hafenszenen mit unterschiedlichen Schiffen und antiken Ruinen. Fein gravierte Umrahmung mit polychrom emaillierten Blumen-Girlanden und kleinen ovalen, weissen Medaillons, zusätzliche hellblaue Bordüre. Meistermarke ALA, wohl Antoine Louis Anthiaume, Charge wohl Henry Clavel, Décharge fehlt. Ca. 8,6 x 6,4 x 3,3 cm.
Snuffbox with putti, flowers and arrows. Gold and enamel, probably Melchior-René Barre, Paris, 1774-75
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Shaker oval boxes partly made, at Fruitlands Shaker Museum, Harvard, Massachussetts. The Shakers were 19th century America's largest and best known communal utopian society, and by 1840 there were 18 communities from Maine to Kentucky. - Michael Freeman Photography
