Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

An 18th/19th century gold mounted bloodstone egg-shaped bonbonnière, English or French, the bloodstone body overlaid with ornate gold chased cagework of frollicking putti amidst C-scrolls and garlands, the hinged lid with green enamel collar reading in gold lettering ‘DIEU VOUS BENIT’, with rose-cut diamond push thumbpiece, length 4.8cm. £2,000-£2,500

For a similar example in green jasper, see The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, by Grandjean, Piacenti, Truman, Blunt, 1975, Cat. No. 34, page 75, Inv. W3/8/14.