Enamel Love-Bird Snuff Box, Birmingham 1907
An early 1900s enamel and silver snuff box, the lid decorated with love-birds in a floral wreath on a purple guilloche enamel ground, import marks for Birmingham 1907 to the interior, length 2.36 in.
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- Guilloche - A form of classical decoration consisting of a repeating ornament of interlacing curved bands, sometimes forming circles, and further decorated with rosettes or other flower forms.
The name is derived from the inventor, French engineer Guillot, who invented a mechanical method of inscribing fine repeating patterns on to metallic surfaces.
On enamelled items with guilloche decoration, the surface is firstly engraved with the repeating pattern, and then covered with several layers of enamel, each of which is fired.
Where the item has not been enamelled the form of decoration is usually called "engine turned".
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