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Snuff box
  • Snuff box
  • Jean Ducrollay (c. 1708 - after 1776) , Goldsmith
  • Paris, France
  • 1744
  • Gold and enamel, embossed and engraved
  • Object size: 3.2 x 7.6 x 5.8 cm
    Weight: 159.2 g
  • Maker's mark: 'J. D.' under a heart Parisian form
    Warden's mark: 'C' of the Maison Commune 1743-4
  • G4
  • Boudoir Cabinet
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  • This superb box, made in Paris by perhaps the finest snuff-box maker of eighteenth-century France, resembles a scallop shell and is enamelled as a white peacock’s fan-tail, in full display on the cover. Anyone standing opposite the owner of this box would therefore have the impression of the peacock displaying his tail when the owner lifted the lid. The box was owned by the duc d’Aumont, first gentleman of Louis XV’s bedchamber, until his death in 1782.