Snuffbox with the miniature "Love spell"
Snuffbox with the miniature "Love spell"
France, Paris
1779
Jean-Joseph Barri?re
Gold; chasing, enamel painting, enamel over guilloche
3.2 х 8.3 х 6 cm, 168 gr
Master's mark: on top and bottom interior lids' surfaces "J.B."
Louis XVI oval gold, enamelled and diamond snuffbox with central vertical oval raised plaque depicting landscape with a young lady conjuring love spell within a triple silver frame, mounted old European cut diamonds on translucent pale violet opalescent enamel ground over engine-turning with brown highlighted in green painted branches to simulate moss agate, framed by the running border of small white opalescent pearls and framed by a triple of old European cut diamonds, the sides and base with similarly decorated panels within fine white opaque enamel borders and surrounded by further borders of raised translucent green leaves and red berries.
Инв.2038.159/ДПИ