Auction on
13 October 2021 - 11:00 (CEST) -
Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Objects of vertu and curiosities have the wind in their sails, riding the auction seas to great success.
Moulinié Bautte & Cie. Gift snuffbox in yellow-gold guilloché, the lid decorated with Napoleon I’s monogram set with antique-cut round diamonds on a polychrome enamel ground, 1809–1815, 8.8 x 5.2 x 2 cm/3.5 x 2 x 0.79 in. Result: €101,600
Moulinié Bautte & Cie. Gift snuffbox in yellow-gold guilloché, the lid decorated with Napoleon I’s monogram set with antique-cut round diamonds on a polychrome enamel ground, 1809–1815, 8.8 x 5.2 x 2 cm/3.5 x 2 x 0.79 in. Result: €101,600
Several pieces in this important auction, whose total proceeds came to €946,248, had been highlighted in the magazine. First was a gold snuffbox (7.4 x 5.8 x 4 cm/3 x 2 x 1.5 in, net wt. 257 g/9 oz) which had made the cover of La Gazette. The chinoiserie snuffbox inlaid with mother-of-pearl and Burgau lacquer opened the sale with a result of €76,200. Next followed…
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