Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Gold Boxes
Lot 40*
A late 18th / early 19th century Swiss gold and enamelled snuff box by Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Cie, Geneva, 1792-1801
25 April 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,125 inc. premium
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Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
A late 18th / early 19th century Swiss gold and enamelled snuff box
by Guidon, Rémond, Gide & Cie, Geneva, 1792-1801
Rectangular with canted corners, the cover painted en plein with a scene of a young family having been rowed across a coastal inlet with mountains and villages in the background, within a black and white champlevé enamel border of scrolls, paterae and stiff leaves, the sides with champlevé enamel in blues and white with lozenges each centred by a leaf and surrounded and separated by quatrefoils, the canted corners with vase pilasters, the base with similar champlevé decoration with a laurel-encircled anchor, length 9.8cm, weight total 102gms.
Rectangular with canted corners, the cover painted en plein with a scene of a young family having been rowed across a coastal inlet with mountains and villages in the background, within a black and white champlevé enamel border of scrolls, paterae and stiff leaves, the sides with champlevé enamel in blues and white with lozenges each centred by a leaf and surrounded and separated by quatrefoils, the canted corners with vase pilasters, the base with similar champlevé decoration with a laurel-encircled anchor, length 9.8cm, weight total 102gms.
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