A FINE LOUIS XV JEWEL-SET ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX

细节

A FINE LOUIS XV JEWEL-SET ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY JEAN DUCROLLAY, MARKED, PARIS, 1753/1755, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JULIEN BERTHE AND THE COUNTER-MARK OF ÉLOY BRICHARD

Ingot shaped box engraved with interwoven bands, the cover, sides and base painted with Chinoiserie scenes in opaque enamel and translucent basse-taille enamel, the raised scrolling silver thumbpiece studded with diamonds
78 mm. wide

来源

Baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild (1820-1886), Frankfurt am Main
Thence by heritage to The Lord Rothschild, G.B.E., G.M., F.R.S.
His sale of Highly Important Gold Boxes, Christie's, London, 30 June 1982, lot 54.

出版

Ferdinand Luthmer, Führer durch die Freiherrlich K. von Rothschild'sche Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 1890, VI, p. 96, no. 5

拍品专文

Jean Ducrollay's outstanding reputation is praised by A. Kenneth Snowman (Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1966, p. 77): "Many of the most beautiful gold boxes produced in the reign of Louis XV were made in the workshop of Jean Ducrollay, and his is the name that first suggests itself for unvarying brilliance and craftmanship and freshness of design." Works by Ducrollay are in the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Wallace Collection and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.