A Louis Xv Three-Colour Gold and Enamel Snuff-Box

Rectangular with canted corners, all panels enamelled to simulate lapis lazuli and applied with oval reserves chased with trophies of the arts and sciences surrounded by ribbons and oak leaves within reeded and foliate borders, the cover's sides chased with fluting centred with a military trophy on thumbpiece and laurel branches on the three other sides, the eight corners chased with a column, marked in cover, base and inside the flange: charge, date-letter (C); on the flange: decharge and contremarque in use 1768-1774

Estimate:£120,000

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