Snuffbox with Mythological Scenes and Landscapes
This oval box displays Rococo gold work in scrolls and floral motifs. On the cover is a scene of Venus asking Vulcan for weapons for Aeneas, which is signed by François Joseph Bourgoin, a noted enamelist who worked for King Louis XV during the 1760s. Decorating metal boxes in...
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Allègre Sale, Paris, 1872. Purchased (?) by Dreyfus de Gonzales; Sale, Paris, June 1 1896, no. 1. Purchased (?) by Martin Rikoff; Sale, Paris, December 4 1907, no. 176. Purchased (?) by George Harding, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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11
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gold, enamel
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