Decorative Arts
Baraset House offers a fine selection boxes, silver and fine decorative objects, with particular focus on items of rare or unusual design, exceptional quality & craftsmanship & notable provenance.
French, gold & enamel snuff box by Frères Jordan, circa 1790
A magnificent late 18th century gold and enamel snuff box by Frères Jordan (Hanau, active c.1790-1820),
with enamel plaque
after Angelica Kauffman (Swiss, 1741-1807)
maker's mark FJ crowned incuse
circa 1790
​Of shallow rectangular form with rounded corners, the cover set with a miniature enameled plaque en pleine depicting a mother and child in a wooded landscape, the sides and base set with turquoise enameled ground stamped at intervals with gold fleur-de-lis and within white enamel fillets, the outer sable gold borders with scrolling foliage.
Marked inside the base and cover with maker's mark FJ crowned incuse, the town mark for Vienna, interlace S, sunray and monogram mark, sunbursts. The flange stamped with inventory number 4686.
French, Gold toothpick case
Barthelemy Cabaille, Paris 1784
A fine Louis XVI engine-turned tri-colour gold
toothpick case bearing makers mark for
Barthélemy Cabaille (master 1775; active 1791)
and the poinçons of Henri Clavel
with the tête de vanneau decharge,
Paris 1784
George III French toothpick cases of this period are exceeding rare and this is a magnificent example from a rare and sought-after master Parisian goldsmith. The elongated oblong shape features rounded end, and the cover shows a crisply engine-turned central panel within a scrolling leaf-and-bead border. The sides and base with similar engine-turned panel, separated by relief yellow-gold laurel and paterae pilasters.
Italian, gold & enamel box by Faraone Milano, circa 1950-60
An exceptionally fine mid 20th century
Italian jewelled guilloché enamel gold cigarette case
by Faraone Milano
gold hallmarked & signed Faraone, Milan, Italy
circa 1950s/60s
Rectangular with rounded corners, the solid gold body enamelled in translucent yellow over a moiré guilloché ground, within gold borders, with a rose-cut diamond-set thumb-piece, marked inside cover and base
3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm.) wide
The gem-set solid gold case with a guilloché wave moire pattern covered with a yellow gold translucent enamel of the finest quality, the thumbpiece set with a row of five graduated rose-cut diamonds. The design of this guilloché wave moire pattern cigarette case was popularized by Fabergé at the turn-of-the-century. Tracing its roots back to 1860, the august House of Faraone was patronized by a venerated client list comprising many members of the European royalty, aristocratic Italian families including the Savoys, and international celebrities. After World War I the company opened its first salon on the Via Montenapoleone in Milan and was celebrated for its exquisite workmanship.
