A Louis Xv Gold, Mother-Of-Pearl and Shell Snuff-Box

Large rectangular box, the gold cover, base and sides chased with ogee-shaped fluting in polished and matted gold inlaid with chinoiserie designs in shells and tinted mother-of-pearl depicting a figure holding an umbrella seated on a throne flanked by three figures, one holding a parrot, one preparing his bow and the last one raising his finger, the underside with a figure seated cross-legged on a plinth in an architectural landscape, the two smaller sides with animals, the front with two children fishing, the back with a garden scene, the rims chased with rocaille, marked in cover, base and inside rim with charge, date-letter (E) and maker; on cover rim with decharge

Estimate:$269,112

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