SPURIOUS MARKS FOR PIERRE CROISSANT, PARIS, 1744, WITH LATE 18TH CENTURY SÈVRES PANELS

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A GOLD AND PORCELAIN SNUFF-BOX
SPURIOUS MARKS FOR PIERRE CROISSANT, PARIS, 1744, WITH LATE 18TH CENTURY SÈVRES PANELS
Rectangular, the gold cagework chased with swirling reeding and framing porcelain panels painted with large oval reserves centred by a flower spray, the spandrels with gilt painted decoration, marked in cover, base and inside flange with charge, date-letter (D) and maker; on cover rim: decharge
3 in. (7.8 cm.) long
gross weight 4 oz. 15 dwt. (149 gr.)

Provenance

Collection of Madame Dhainaut; Sotheby's, London 10 December 1936.
Alfred E. Pearson, Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 23 May 1967.
Neville Hamwee (1907-1988), Jersey.
Jaime Ortiz-Patiño (1930-2013),
The Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Collection, Part II; Christie's, London, 27 November 1973, lot 19.
with Wartski, London.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.

Literature

A. K. Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Paris. A Catalogue of the J. Ortiz-Patiño Collection, London, 1974, p. 33, cat. no. 11.
A. K. Snowman, 18th Century Gold Boxes of Europe, London, 1990, p. 120, pls. 213-215.

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Lot Essay

Plaques de tabatière (snuff-boxes plaques) started being produced in Sèvres factory in February 1754 according to Rosalinde Savill, in C. Truman, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Gold Boxes, London, 213, p. 124 and 125. Until 1759 all plaques were purchased exclusively by the Marchand-Mercier Lazare Duvaux before goldsmiths like Jean Ducrollay started acquiring them independently.

For a comparable see the Wallace Collection, a gold-mounted Sèvres porcelain snuff-box by Jean Ducrollay, Paris, 1759-1760 (G.31), and another in the Louvre Museum, Paris, a gold-mounted Sèvres porcelain snuff-box by Pierre-Aymé Joubert, Paris, 1743-1744 (OA 2221).

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