A Private Collection of Snuff Boxes & Bonbonnières - 25th April 2017

Lot 199

An 18th century French three-colour gold oval snuff box

Estimate £700 - £900 | Hammer £1300

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Description

An 18th century French three-colour gold oval snuff box,

by Nicholas-Augustin Delions, Paris 1766,

the cover with a central patera within an oval frame hung with ribbons and supported by laurels on a lattice ground, the sides with similar paterae panels within a twisted ribbon guilloche band, length 6cm, approx. weight 62g.