A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX, HANAU, CIRCA 1790, MAKER'S MARK -. B. G., WITH CROWNED LETTER K, STRUCK WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THE CHARGE MARK OF JULIEN ALATERRE AND THE DECHARGE MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE

A GERMAN ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
HANAU, CIRCA 1790, MAKER'S MARK -. B. G., WITH CROWNED LETTER K, STRUCK WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THE CHARGE MARK OF JULIEN ALATERRE AND THE DECHARGE MARK OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with panels of translucent French-blue enamel on a horizontally reeded engine-turned ground stamped at intervals with pellets and within opaque white enamel frames, the cover centered with an oval enamel plaque depicting Alexander the Great and his physician Philip, within a border of white enamel beads alternating with translucent green enamel leaves and translucent red enamel berries on a sablé gold ground, the outer gold borders and side pilasters applied with raised opalescent enamel ovolos alternating with bands of white enamel beads between garlands of translucent green and red enamel leaves and berries
3 in. (78 mm.) wide

Provenance
Christopher Henry Thomas Hawkins of Trewithen Cornwall and 10 Portland Place, London, landowner and prodigious collector.
C.H.T. Hawkins, deceased, of 10 Portland Place; Christie's, London, 17 May 1904, lot 1182 (250 gns to Duveen).
Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), later knighted, created a baronet and made Lord Duveen of Millbank, art dealer and benefactor, director of Duveen Brothers.