A LOUIS XV FOUR-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX BY CHARLES LE BASTIER,...
Rectangular chased on all sides with alternating polished gold and reeded stripes, each panel centred by a bucolic scene: on the cover a couple of peacocks and a cockerel pecking at fruits in garden landscape, on the front panel, two chickens eating some grains, on the underside two rabbits grazing in a garden near baskets, on the back a view of a village, and on each side: flowers, marked in cover and base: charge, date-letter (R) and maker; on flange: décharge and Austro-Hungarian control mark for Graz in use from 1807 to 1866
31⁄8 in. (8 cm.) long
6 oz. 11 dwt. (205 gr.)
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Rectangular chased on all sides with alternating polished gold and reeded stripes, each panel centred by a bucolic scene: on the cover a couple of peacocks and a cockerel pecking at fruits in garden landscape, on the front panel, two chickens eating some grains, on the underside two rabbits grazing in a garden near baskets, on the back a view of a village, and on each side: flowers, marked in cover and base: charge, date-letter (R) and maker; on flange: décharge and Austro-Hungarian control mark for Graz in use from 1807 to 1866
31⁄8 in. (8 cm.) long
6 oz. 11 dwt. (205 gr.)
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