A GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF BOX WITH MUSIC AND AUTOMATON, GUIDON, RÉMOND, GIDE, GENEVA, 1792-1801

A GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF BOX WITH MUSIC AND AUTOMATON, GUIDON, RÉMOND, GIDE, GENEVA, 1792-1801

oval, the lid painted en plein with Telemachus arriving with Mentor on Calypso's isle, within a chased and enamelled border, the sides and base decorated in taille d'épargne enamels with a diaper design within similar borders, the sides divided by urns on a ground pierced to help the music be heard, the lid opening to show the complicated coloured gold automaton by which figures in renaissance dress conduct music and peep at an itinerant knife grinder, gilt sur plateau movement, apparently unmarked, scratched number '10' in two places, the enamel ground painted as a romantic Italianate garden with trees, arcades and statues, the base opening for the key compartment, maker's mark, with original key decorated with matching diaper pattern
9cm., 3½in. wide
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