Jewellery, Watches, Silver & Objects of Vertu

A Swiss gold enamelled snuff box by Rémond Lamy & Cie, Geneva, circa 1800, of rectangular form with canted corners, the cover with ‘en plein’ enamelled scene probably by Jean-Louis Richter, depicting a mamelouk on horseback, attacked by a lion, against an Egyptian landscape of Giza, including classical ruins, sphinx, camels and pyramids, beside a lake, inscribed ‘Vue.d. Djize’, framed within a blue, black and white enamelled border with taille d’épargne gold peacock feathers, the base similarly framed and decorated with translucent grey enamel over a guilloché design of intersecting circles, the lid stamped with incuse maker’s mark, the inside base with St Petersburg town mark and assay mark of Alexander Yashinov, with unassociated red leather Bulgari case, length 9.5cm. £7,000-£8,000

Christie’s London, Important Miniatures, Gold Boxes & Objects of Vertu, 21 November 2000, sale no. 6386, Lot 201.