Auction Closed
October 14, 05:38 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Five g🍸old, tur꧟quoise or enamel needle cases, Paris and Geneva, early 19th century
The first, inset diagonally with bands of turquoise half beads, probably Geneva, for the Ottoman market, early 19th, unmarked; the second varicoloured gold, tubular, pellets on reeding within corded borders, base initialled: ‘M G', Paris discharge of Henri Clavel 1782-89, other marks rubbed; the third formed as a stele with Pharaoh head, chased with Egyptian symbols, the base with compartment, maker's mark rubbed, later French control marks; the fourth a gold and pale blue enamel example, one side with initials C in a shield, Gabriel Raoul Morel, Paris 2e titre; the fifth a&nbs🧸p;very small gold example with anthemionℱ ornament, Antoine Beauvisage fils, Paris
weight: 70.2 g
length of largest 3¾ in.; 9,5 cm.
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Cinq étuis à ai𒁏guilles en or, turquoise et émail, Paris et Genève, dé👍but du XIXe siècle
le premier, prob. Genève pour le marché ottoman, début XIXe ; le deuxième, poinçon de décharge à Paris d'Henri Clavel ; le troisième, poinçon de contrôle français ; le quatrième, Gabriel Raoul Morel, Paris 2e titre ; le cinquième, Antoine Beauvisage fils, Paris
weight: 70.2 g
length of largest 3¾ in.; 9,5 cm.
Sotheby's, Paris, 26 June 2013, lot 53.
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Sotheby's, Paris, 26 juin 2013, lot 53.