A LOUIS XV GOLD SEALING-WAX CASE

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A LOUIS XV GOLD SEALING-WAX CASE
BY MICHEL-ROBERT HALLET, MARKED, PARIS 1750/1752, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE OF JULIEN BERTHE
Étui-à-cire of oval section, the cover and base engine-turned with a continuous zig-zag pattern forming a diagonal twisted ribbon motif, the cover topped by an engraved rosette and concentrical zig-zag, the base matrix later engraved with the acollé coat-of-arms of the Chevalier Simon-Claude de Grassin and his second wife Marguerite-Françoise de Vion de Tessancourt called La Marquise de Grassin, married in 1755
115mm. (4½in.) high
(50gr.)

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Michel-Robert Hallet (or Hallé) struck his mark in 1737 under the caution of the famous gold box maker Claude de Villers. The most celebrated of Hallet's pupils was Jean-Baptiste Beckers. On 20 August 1754, the Affiches de Paris announced the burial of Michel-Robert Hallet, orfèvre du Roi. In the same year, Hallet was succeeded as a joaillier du Roi by his son Etienne-Michel.

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