A Louis Xv Gold-Mounted Japanese Lacquer Aide-Mémoire

Each side set with a lacquer panel of gold, red and grey hiramakie flower bouquet on a dark ground, the gold cagework chased with foliage and flowerheads, set inside the covers with two miniatures, one on vellum depicting mourning putti surrounding a sarcophagus hung with garlands, the other side with a miniature on ivory after Domenicho Zampieri's 'the Cumanean Sibyl' of 1622, applied on rims with lugs fitted with a gold pencil, marked inside the binding: charge, date-letter (F) and maker; on pencil: maker and decharge; with notebook inside with various inscriptions including one dated April 1833 and one 1 January 1874

Estimate:£8,000

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