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A SWISS JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD VINAIGRETTE MAKER'S MARK 'M B', POSSIBLY FOR MOULINIé & BAUTTE, GENEVA, CIRCA 1810 shaped as a low basket, enamelled with a butterfly amidst roses, blue forget-me-nots, chrysanthemums and daisies in pink, red and orange shades, with green leaves against a translucent dark-blue enamelled engine-turned ground, the basket of textured staves of gold alternating with white and black taille d'épargne enamel, within seed-pearl borders, the reverse of translucent blue enamel with black and gold arrowhead border, the sides of translucent blue enamel set at intervals with gold rosettes, with hinged openwork grille 2? in. (55 mm.) long
A very similar vinaigrette, with the same maker's mark possibly for Moulinié & Bautte, was sold in these rooms, Important Gold Boxes and Objects of Vertu including Vinaigrettes from the Englefield Collection, 22 May 2001, lot 357. Moulinié, Bautte & Cie were specialists in fine pocket watches and objects of vertu, including a series of vinaigrettes with enamelled landscape scenes depicting Swiss views, flowers and animals. Jean-Fran?ois Bautte was born in Geneva in 1772. He trained in the different trades of being a case-fitter, engraver, watch-maker, jeweller, and goldsmith. In 1793, he joined forces with Jacques-Dauphin Moulinié (1761–1838), under the corporate name Moulinié & Bautte, case-fitters. In 1804, with the arrival of Jean-Gabriel Moynier, the firm became Moulinié, Bautte & Cie., sellers of gold cases for watches and jewellery. It was then that Jean-Fran?ois Bautte developed his own workshop in Geneva that brought together under the same roof all the bodies of trades of watch-making. Bautte died in 1837.