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Maker(s):Sageret, Charles-Barnabé
Culture:French
Title:Snuffbox
Date Made:1768?
Type:Container
Materials:gold enamel
Place Made:France
Measurements:oval, 2 x 2 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.; 5.08 x 6.6675 x 3.175 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1958.96
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gottlieb
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art

Currently on view

Description:
early Louis XV style, gold enameled in translucent blue on a basse taille ground (engraved wavy lines); inset oval plaquette with enameled miniature (woman in classical costume with antique urn in pastoral setting); tooled borders with relief urns, leaves, and "pearls" inlaid with translucent enamels;
appraisal on file by John LaMarre (1958) notes the mark of the Fermier-General (tax collector) Jean Prevost

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