A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE by Charles Le Bastier (fl. 1754-1783), marked, Paris, 1775/1776, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache 1774-1780 and struck with inventory no. 254, the enamel portrait French or Swiss, circa 1710/1715 Oval box, the cover, side and base panels enamelled with alternating translucent blue and brown hatched/dotted salmon yellow vertical ribbons on a peaked and coin guilloché ground, within fluted gold and opaque white enamel borders, the cover later applied with an oval enamel plaque depicting King Philip V of Spain wearing a long curly powdered full-bottomed wig, silvered armour, the blue sash of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost and the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, within a white enamel border applied with pierced gold ribbon cresting and floral garland, under glass and within a gold husk border, the opaque white-enamelled rims applied with a ribbon-twist band enclosing dots and interspersed with half-rosettes, the upper border of the side walls with opaque white enamel bands applied with swirling gold rosettes alternating with laurel garlands and framed by flutes, the four rectangular side wall dividers similarly enamelled and applied with chased gold trophies of music 3 5/16 in. (84 mm.) wide
A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A PORTRAIT MINIATURE by Charles Le Bastier (fl. 1754-1783), marked, Paris, 1775/1776, with the charge and discharge marks of Jean-Baptiste Fouache 1774-1780 and struck with inventory no. 254, the enamel portrait French or Swiss, circa 1710/1715 Oval box, the cover, side and base panels enamelled with alternating translucent blue and brown hatched/dotted salmon yellow vertical ribbons on a peaked and coin guilloché ground, within fluted gold and opaque white enamel borders, the cover later applied with an oval enamel plaque depicting King Philip V of Spain wearing a long curly powdered full-bottomed wig, silvered armour, the blue sash of the Royal French Order of the Holy Ghost and the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, within a white enamel border applied with pierced gold ribbon cresting and floral garland, under glass and within a gold husk border, the opaque white-enamelled rims applied with a ribbon-twist band enclosing dots and interspersed with half-rosettes, the upper border of the side walls with opaque white enamel bands applied with swirling gold rosettes alternating with laurel garlands and framed by flutes, the four rectangular side wall dividers similarly enamelled and applied with chased gold trophies of music 3 5/16 in. (84 mm.) wide
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