Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Gold Boxes
Lot 43*
A late 18th / early 19th century German gold and enamelled snuff box maker's mark script 'FJ' within a rectangle flanked by sunbursts, the flange with the Hanau shell mark for 18 carat gold with later French import marks
25 April 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,750 inc. premium
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Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
A late 18th / early 19th century German gold and enamelled snuff box
maker's mark script 'FJ' within a rectangle flanked by sunbursts, the flange with the Hanau shell mark for 18 carat gold with later French import marks
Rectangular, the replaced cover with a central oval enamelled plaque depicting a bewigged European nobleman wearing a pectoral cross and ermine, within a floral gold frame, the sides and base with chased floral and black enamel panels within white enamel stringing, length 9cm, weight total 148gms.
Rectangular, the replaced cover with a central oval enamelled plaque depicting a bewigged European nobleman wearing a pectoral cross and ermine, within a floral gold frame, the sides and base with chased floral and black enamel panels within white enamel stringing, length 9cm, weight total 148gms.
Footnotes
The marks on the present lot appear to link a much discussed series of boxes from the late 18th century through to the 1820s, the elusive 'FJ'. Previously erroneously identified as François Juanin and also sometimes attributed to Frères Jordan. 'FJ' appears to have produced a large number of gold and enamelled boxes, the earlier ones bearing the monogram marks found on lots 50 and 51, and the later ones marked with an incuse 'FJ' and, variously, crossed-Ss or the sunbursts found on the present lot, see lots 46 and 47.
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