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Lot 511
A Louis XV gold and Japanese lacquer snuff box maker's mark poorly struck, almost certainly Pierre-François Drais, Paris 1771
18 – 19 April 2023, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£10,000 - £15,000
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A Louis XV gold and Japanese lacquer snuff box
maker's mark poorly struck, almost certainly Pierre-François Drais, Paris 1771
Rectangular with canted corners, the cover set with a lacquer panel of chrysanthemums on a gold dust ground in a finely chased stiff-leaf gold hinged-mount with draped laurel to the sides and forming the thumbpiece, the sides with cut panels of Japanese lacquer depicting trees and mountains, with fluted pilaster mounts, the base with foliage on a gold dust ground, in later fitted case, length 4.6cm.
Rectangular with canted corners, the cover set with a lacquer panel of chrysanthemums on a gold dust ground in a finely chased stiff-leaf gold hinged-mount with draped laurel to the sides and forming the thumbpiece, the sides with cut panels of Japanese lacquer depicting trees and mountains, with fluted pilaster mounts, the base with foliage on a gold dust ground, in later fitted case, length 4.6cm.
Footnotes
Drais' mark is notoriously poor struck, Nocq includes several facsimiles all showing variances, see page 97, Henry Nocq, Le Poinçoins de Paris VOL II (Paris 1968). Japanese lacquer panels were highly coveted in late 18th century Paris, they were cut into panels to be fitted into exquisite gold snuff boxes.
Literature: Previously attributed to Jean Ducrollay, Paris 1768, see plate 21A, Richard and Martin Norton, A History of Gold Boxes (London 1938).
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