Snuffboxes and Сigarette Сases

Snuffbox with floral ornamentation

    Snuffbox with floral ornamentation

    Germany, Berlin

    Circa 1795–1800

    Frères Jordan

    Gold, enamel

    1 × 8 × 4.0 cm

    Sunray within three crossed-S marks; stamped 43[7]6; Paris import petite garantie

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    Unlike the majority of snuffboxes associated with the Frères Jordan workshop that have lids painted en plein with a landscape or figural subjects and with bases thematically unrelated, this snuffbox is decorated with the same design on the lid and base – a painted chain of spring and summer flowers reserved on a primrose ground and bordered by champlevé bands of cerulean rope-twist

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