Aspire Auctions, Inc., is offering a lovely box with tooled silver and enameled decoration by French artist Théophile Soyer and a miniature painting after British portraitist Francis Cotes of one if the famed 18th Century Gunning sisters, known for their beauty and successful marriages. The box is inscribed Tiffany & Co., France and was probably sold in the shop of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the father of Louis Comfort Tiffany. ...
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Enamel Box,
March 2012 Auction