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Lot Essay
Luxury items such as this carnet / aide-mémoire set with lacquer panels became very fashionable from the early 1750s. Lacquer was almost exclusively sold in Paris by the Marchands-Merciers who supplied gold box makers with off-cuts of larger panels, well suited to the small format of these objects.
Ducrollay was one of the first to produce these gold-mounted lacquer boxes and objects. He purchased the lacquer panels from several Marchands-Merciers, such as Thomas-Joachim Hébert, from whom he acquired panels of Chinese lacquer, and Simon de la Hoguette, a dealer in lacquer boxes and other luxury wares. But it was with Lazare Duvaux that he traded most regularly as recorded in Duvaux's Livre-Journal where Ducrollay's name appears on numerous occasions.
For a more detailed note on Ducrollay and lacquer see lot 17 and for a biography of Ducrollay, see lot 7, both offered in Part I of The Blaquier-Arrieta Collection.
Ducrollay was one of the first to produce these gold-mounted lacquer boxes and objects. He purchased the lacquer panels from several Marchands-Merciers, such as Thomas-Joachim Hébert, from whom he acquired panels of Chinese lacquer, and Simon de la Hoguette, a dealer in lacquer boxes and other luxury wares. But it was with Lazare Duvaux that he traded most regularly as recorded in Duvaux's Livre-Journal where Ducrollay's name appears on numerous occasions.
For a more detailed note on Ducrollay and lacquer see lot 17 and for a biography of Ducrollay, see lot 7, both offered in Part I of The Blaquier-Arrieta Collection.