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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2001

LOT 476

?La Science et l'Amour tentant d'arrêter le temps?.Jean Abraham Lissignol, circa 1810.Magnificent 18K and enamel snuff box.

C. Double-body, rectangular with canted corners, the base and side panels of blue flinqué with white and blue champlevé enameled borders, the lid with a very fine enamel panel, painted with a scene featuring Scienceand Love attempting to stop Time, personified as Kronos, within a gold frame chased with a wreath of leaves,(sides restored).Signed center right.Dim. 71 x 100 mm.