Provenance: Château de Selincourt (Somme) - Lot 333

Provenance: Château de Selincourt (Somme) PUIFORCAT Round vermeil (gold on silver) cylindrical toilet box with truncated lid. Base decorated in light relief with oves and interlacing, halfway up: band of chased foliate posts. Lid edged with ovals and interlacing. Shell decoration on an amatized background. Minerve hallmark 1st title (body and lid). Master goldsmith's hallmark: ("EP" and a penknife) for Émile PUIFORCAT, received in 1857. Signature in full letters under the base: "PUIFORCAT PARIS". H. 9.5 cm Diam. base: 12.7 cm. Neck diameter: 6.5 cm. Weight: 673.1 grams. In its original gray cardboard box signed "PUIFORCAT Orfèvre. 13 , Bd. Haussmann Paris 8" (used condition). Box dimensions: H: 10.3 cm. L: 19.5 cm. D: 19.5 cm. Reproduced from a box from the PUIFORCAT Collection made around 1720 and now in the Louvre Museum (inventory number OA 9939 a).