A FINE LOUIS XVI VERRE ÉGLOMISÉ AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX

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A FINE LOUIS XVI VERRE ÉGLOMISÉ AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY ADRIEN-JEAN-MAXIMILIEN VACHETTE, MARKED AND SIGNED, PARIS, 1789, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS KALENDRIN, AND WITH THE "PETITE GARANTIE" FOR GOLD, PARIS 1798-1809

Rectangular box with canted corners, the cover, base, sides and corners inset with 10 verre églomisé panels finely engraved on a gold ground and underlaid with black, depicting scenes of the myth of Diana the Huntress including the death of Actaeon, on the cover, and the discovery of Callisto's pregnancy, on the base, mounted within a polished gold cagework, engraved on the flange Vachette Bijoutier à Paris, within silk-and velvet-lined red morocco case
100 mm. wide

来源

Dr. H. W. J. Fockema Collection, Brussels
Sold Christie's, London, 18 November 1969, lot 74, illustr. colour frontispiece

出版

Géza von Habsburg-Lothringen, Gold Boxes from The Collection of Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert, London, 1983, p. 107.
Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles, 1991, p. 119, illustr. fig. 28

拍品专文

The scenes on the lid and together with two seated figures on the undersides are all details inspired by "La Caccia di Diana", also called "The Games of Diana and her Nymphs" by Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino, in the Borghese Gallery, Rome. The scene on the front panel is after "The Dance of Apollo and the Muses" by Giulio Romano in the Pitti Palace, Florence, with the addition of a seated figure to the left.
For a similar box of the same year 1789 but by J.-E. Blerzy, see Géza von Habsburg-Lothringen, op. cit.., no. 57.