Snuffboxes and Сigarette Сases

Snuff box with detachable lid depicting a dancing bacchante

    Snuff box with detachable lid depicting a dancing bacchante

    France, Paris

    1789–1792

    Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette

    Gold, enamel, leather (case), wood (case); chasing, engine-turning (guilloché), champlevé enamel

    2.1 x 8.1 cm

    Stamped with the maker's mark of A.-J.-M. Vachette; the discharge mark of the fermier général (tax collector) Jean-François Kalandrin for the period 1789-1792; a Paris date letter; and a Paris small guarantee mark for the period 1798–1809

    1073.1-3MC41/ДПИ