Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
Gold Boxes
Lot 59*
An early 19th century French gold and enamelled snuff box, by Victoire Boizot (veuve Blerzy), Paris 1808 - 1819
25 April 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £18,125 inc. premium
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Anna Burnside
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An early 19th century French gold and enamelled snuff box,
by Victoire Boizot (veuve Blerzy), Paris 1808 - 1819
Unusual wavy-edge rectangular form, the cover centred with an enamel plaque depicting a harbour scene with mountains in the distance, a barque with pennants fluttering with the sun setting behind over a rayed engine-turned ground, within a stiff leafed frame and a border of pale green-highlighted acanthus scrolls on a lilac enamel ground with red and white paterae, the underside with blue pink and red enamel of radiating wavy lines centred on a patera, the sides with translucent red taille d'epergne wavy lines between white bands on a pink ground, the base centred with the tugra of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (1784-1839) on a pink ground with translucent red roses and a similar acanthus border, length 8cm, weight total 188gms.
Unusual wavy-edge rectangular form, the cover centred with an enamel plaque depicting a harbour scene with mountains in the distance, a barque with pennants fluttering with the sun setting behind over a rayed engine-turned ground, within a stiff leafed frame and a border of pale green-highlighted acanthus scrolls on a lilac enamel ground with red and white paterae, the underside with blue pink and red enamel of radiating wavy lines centred on a patera, the sides with translucent red taille d'epergne wavy lines between white bands on a pink ground, the base centred with the tugra of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (1784-1839) on a pink ground with translucent red roses and a similar acanthus border, length 8cm, weight total 188gms.
Footnotes
Mahmud II (1785 – 1839) was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. His reign is recognized for the extensive administrative, military, and fiscal reforms he instituted, which culminated into the Decree of Tanzimat that was carried out by his sons Abdulmejid I and Abdülaziz.
The presence of the Sultan's tugra on the present lot confirms that during the 19th century Ottoman Sultans and their courtiers were ordering intricate and elaborate gold, enamel and jewelled boxes from the European centres of Paris and Geneva, giving rise to the descriptive phrase 'Turkish Market' gold box.
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