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BOX (BONBONNIÈRE)

Creator(s): J. G. Rémond (Attributed to)

Currently in storage


About this object

A round box with a detachable lid. In the center of the cover is a miniature which shows a young woman in half-length, holding a small dog in her left arm. She wears a striped head scarf fastened with two strings of pearls with similar pearls encircling her upper and lower arms over her dress. She has a landscape behind her. The miniature is framed by a narrow tooled gold band and the cover is edged by a gold string of stylized flower heads on dark blue enamel within white enamel bands. The sides and bottom of the box are decorated in a similar color scheme.

Object name:
BOX (BONBONNIÈRE)
Made from:
Gold -- enamel
Made in:
Geneva, Switzerland
Date made:
c. 1790
Size:
3 in. (7.6 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
11.25.1-2
Signature marks:
MARK I G surmounted by a crown (partially effaced) R (?) (possibly the mark of J-G. Rémond, master in Geneva, 1783) struck three times on lid and bottom LABEL tag removed from box: Duchesse de Phalaris maistresse du Regent 224
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973