"Gold Candy Box, Master Goldsmith Jean Baptiste Louis Rousseau"
Round shaped candy box in 20 carat gold. The lid streaked with concentric lines is bordered by a frieze of foliage in light relief on the top alternating with small vertical lines. Same motif on the sides of a frieze of scrolls alternating with palmettes. The base is identical to the lid, its sides are chiseled with parallel lines topped with a garland of diamonds and squares in the neoclassical taste.Rooster in an oval 2nd title (20 carat): 1798-1809, Paris.
Bear head 2nd title: 1795-1797. Head of an old man: 1798-1809
Master goldsmith: JLR (a lying greyhound) for Rousseau Jean Baptiste Louis, 16 Cour Neuve du Palais, iindictment in Paris on May 19, 1779, 1801. Weight: 78 gr.
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