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Gold Boxes: The Wrightsman Collection

Gold Boxes: The Wrightsman Collection

Le Corbeiller, Clare
1977
32 pages
22 illustrations
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Clare Le Corbeiller

Snuffbox, Jean Ducrollay, Gold, French, Paris
1736–37
Snuffbox, Daniel Govaers (or Gouers)  French, Gold, ivory, French, Paris
1732–38
Box with scene depicting Roman hero Gaius Mucius Scaevola before the Etruscan king Lars Porsena, P R  British, Gold, British, London
1741
Snuffbox, Gold, mother-of-pearl, French, Paris
French, Paris
1744–45
Snuffbox, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
French, Paris
1748–49
French, Paris
ca. 1750–56
Snuffbox, Claude Lisonnet  French, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
1750–51
Snuffbox, Daniel Baudesson, Gold, enamel, diamonds, German, Berlin
1755–60
Snuffbox, Noël Hardivillers, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
1754–55
Snuffbox, Noël Hardivillers, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
1753–54
Snuffbox, Jean Formey, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
1757–58
Snuffbox, Barnabé Sageret  French, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
1757–58
Snuffbox, Jean Frémin  French, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
1756–57
Double snuffbox, Jean Ducrollay, Gold, enamel, vellum, gouache, glass, French, Paris
1749–50
Snuffbox with views at the château of Chanteloup, Pierre-François Delafons, Gold, glass, velum, French, Paris
1748/49, miniatures 1767
Snuffbox, Jean Ducrollay, Gold, enamel, tortoiseshell inlaid (piqué) with gold, French, Paris
1754–55
Snuffbox, Louis Roucel  French, Gold, shell, French, Paris
1768–69
Snuffbox, Henry Bodson  French, Gold, French, Paris
1768/69
Snuffbox, Louis Charonnat  French, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
1763–64
Snuffbox, Charles Le Bastier  French, Gold, enamel, French, Paris
1771–72
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Clare Le Corbeiller, and Malcolm Varon, eds. 1977. Gold Boxes: The Wrightsman Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.