A French Louis XV Vari-Coloured Gold Box
Gold
Louis XV
Paris, 1762
Height: 3.8cm, 1.5in.
Length: 9.6cm, 3.7in.
Of deep elliptical form, the cover, sides and base with applied vari-colored gold garlands against a strié ground, within dentillated borders, marked inside cover, base and sides, with the charge of Eloy Brichard and the bezel with the discharge of Jean-Jacques Prévost; maker's mark indistinct; bezel also stamped 827 incuse.
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