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SHELL-SHAPED SNUFFBOX
SHELL-SHAPED SNUFFBOX
11.1
Unknown (Jeweler)
1722-1727
The shape of the hinged box is the simplified outline of a cockleshell. Both the top and the bottom are covered in mother-of pearl. An applied vase at the cover's center holds flowers in gold with...
SNUFFBOX
SNUFFBOX
11.11
Charles Le Bastier (Jeweler)
1774
An oval hinged box. The cover bears an applied medallion containing a painted enamel scene with a young woman and a young man. They have placed flowers on a round pedestal at the left on which...
PERFUME BOTTLE
PERFUME BOTTLE
11.114
Unknown
ca. 1840
The perfume bottle is urn-shaped. It has a gold cap and a glass bottom. The bottom is engraved with trefoil ornaments on the glass. The gold hinged cap has a large diamond in the center at the...
RING
RING
11.116
Unknown (Jeweler)
ca. 1793
The bezel of the ring is a plain oval and contains the image of a feather similar to an ostrich plume. This is done in hair on a white ground and is framed by a dark blue enamel band inscribed in...
SNUFFBOX
SNUFFBOX
11.12
Unknown (Miniaturist)
1776
An oval hinged box. The center of the cover is (was) set with a miniature in a raised gold frame with white dots simulating pearls. The miniature is of a young man facing to the right, wearing a...
SNUFFBOX
SNUFFBOX
11.13
Jean-Jacques Barrière (Attributed to)
1777
An oval hinged box. The cover has an oval medallion containing a painted enamel scene. It shows a seated youth playing a musical instrument while two women kneel beside him at the right. This is...
RECTANGULAR BOX
RECTANGULAR BOX
11.140
Unknown (Jeweler)
c. 1755
A rectangular hinged box. The bottom part of the box is cut from a single piece of bloodstone and is undecorated except for the beveled edges. The cover is a flat piece of bloodstone also with...
RECTANGULAR BOX
RECTANGULAR BOX
11.145
Unknown (Jeweler)
1738-1838
The box is rectangular and the bloodstone surface is cut allover to simulate basketweave. Applied to the cover is an oval medallion in painted enamel with a scene with a prophet or gospel (Moses?)...
GOLD AND BLOODSTONE SNUFFBOX
GOLD AND BLOODSTONE SNUFFBOX
11.146
Unknown (Goldsmith)
1784
The shape of the box is rectangular with the corners cut off. This creates ten panels of bloodstone enclosed in a gold cage. The top and sides of the cover are bordered by intertwined vines, one...
ROUND BOX
ROUND BOX
11.17.1-2
Unknown (Jeweler)
1781-1782
The painted glass plaque on the cover of this box portrays Catherine the Great in the guise of Minerva, an allusion to her strength as a bellicose ruler as well as to her image as an enlightened...
NOTEBOOK (CARNET)
NOTEBOOK (CARNET)
11.18.1-3
Antoine Louis Anthiaume (Goldsmith)
1784-1786
The shape of the carnet is almost rectangular. The top portion lifts up to reveal a gold pencil and three ivory leaves. On the front near the top is the word "Souvenir" in script outlined in...
PHOTOGRAPH CASE
PHOTOGRAPH CASE
11.187
Cartier (Firm)
1920-1928
The photograph case is rectangular in shape. Except for the cover, the case is plain gold outside. The cover is set with lapis lazuli except for the center, which is set with a central plaque of...