A Louis XV Gold and Enamel Nécessaire With a Gold-Faced Gilt-Metal

the shaped tapering body with blue enamel foliage and flowers on an overall textured ground and with a diamond push-button, the hinged cover similarly decorated, opens to reveal a pair of gold-mounted steel scissors; a gold folding fruit-knife; a pierced and gold-inlaid ivory writing surface; a combination bodkin and ear-pick; a further bodkin; a pair of gold and steel tweezers and an associated gilt-metal part pen, the conforming gold-faced gilt-metal chatelaine similarly decorated 18.5cm high including chatelaine With non-transferable standard ivory exemption declaration number XJPTBK5A.

Estimate:£8,000

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