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Lot Essay
ORFEVRE DES MENUS-PLAISIRS
Charles-Barnabé Sageret was the son of the celebrated gold box maker Barnabé Sageret. He was apprenticed to Jean-Jacques Vuyriot from 1737 and to Jean Chabrol after the death of the former in 1738. In 1752, he became, like his father, goldsmith to the duc d'Orléans registering his mark that same year. From 1756 he supplied gold boxes for the Menus Plaisirs for both King Louis XV and the Dauphin. Sageret also held important positions within the guild. In 1764 he was appointed high commissioner 'du grand bureau des pauvres de la ville' (the office for the poor) and from 1765, 'guard' of the guild. In 1787 he was elected alderman of the City of Paris.
MARIE-ANTOINETTE'S AND THE COMTE DE PROVENCE'S WEDDINGS
In 1770 for the Dauphin's wedding to Marie-Antoinette, the Dauphine received a basket of snuff-boxes, fans, watches, cases, knives, scissors, perfume bottles, boîtes à mouche and souvenirs, many of which were made by Sageret. According to the Royal records, he delivered for 66,736 livres of boxes intended for the future Queen and for all the members of her Household. Sageret was by then one of the most important gold box makers in Paris.
In 1771 on the occasion of the King's brother's wedding, the Comte de Provence (1755-1795), celebrated on the 17 May 1771, Sageret delivered thirty-seven boxes amounting to 62,746 livres. These boxes were decorated with portraits, children and with Flemish or pastoral scenes similar to the present box which could have thus been part of this group of boxes (see A. Maze-Sencier, Le livre des Collectionneurs, Paris, 1885, p. 108-113).
MAYER CARL VON ROTHSCHILD
This box is probably from the collection of Mayer Carl von Rothschild. Born in 1820 the eldest son of Carl Mayer (1788-1855), he was educated at Göttingen university and worked in the Frankfurt bank from 1830. He collected over the years almost 5000 works of art set out in his Frankfurt house and in his villa at the Gunthersburg which comprised silver, enamels, Italian hardstones cabinets and gold boxes from Paris, Dresden and Vienna. His collection was divided upon his death between his wife and three of his daughters Emma Louisa (1844-1935), Laura Thérèse (1847-1931) and Adèle Hannah (1843-1922) who gifted 107 boxes to the Louvre including three also by Charles-Barnabé Sageret, see S. Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, p. 156, nos. 188, 189 and 190.
Charles-Barnabé Sageret was the son of the celebrated gold box maker Barnabé Sageret. He was apprenticed to Jean-Jacques Vuyriot from 1737 and to Jean Chabrol after the death of the former in 1738. In 1752, he became, like his father, goldsmith to the duc d'Orléans registering his mark that same year. From 1756 he supplied gold boxes for the Menus Plaisirs for both King Louis XV and the Dauphin. Sageret also held important positions within the guild. In 1764 he was appointed high commissioner 'du grand bureau des pauvres de la ville' (the office for the poor) and from 1765, 'guard' of the guild. In 1787 he was elected alderman of the City of Paris.
MARIE-ANTOINETTE'S AND THE COMTE DE PROVENCE'S WEDDINGS
In 1770 for the Dauphin's wedding to Marie-Antoinette, the Dauphine received a basket of snuff-boxes, fans, watches, cases, knives, scissors, perfume bottles, boîtes à mouche and souvenirs, many of which were made by Sageret. According to the Royal records, he delivered for 66,736 livres of boxes intended for the future Queen and for all the members of her Household. Sageret was by then one of the most important gold box makers in Paris.
In 1771 on the occasion of the King's brother's wedding, the Comte de Provence (1755-1795), celebrated on the 17 May 1771, Sageret delivered thirty-seven boxes amounting to 62,746 livres. These boxes were decorated with portraits, children and with Flemish or pastoral scenes similar to the present box which could have thus been part of this group of boxes (see A. Maze-Sencier, Le livre des Collectionneurs, Paris, 1885, p. 108-113).
MAYER CARL VON ROTHSCHILD
This box is probably from the collection of Mayer Carl von Rothschild. Born in 1820 the eldest son of Carl Mayer (1788-1855), he was educated at Göttingen university and worked in the Frankfurt bank from 1830. He collected over the years almost 5000 works of art set out in his Frankfurt house and in his villa at the Gunthersburg which comprised silver, enamels, Italian hardstones cabinets and gold boxes from Paris, Dresden and Vienna. His collection was divided upon his death between his wife and three of his daughters Emma Louisa (1844-1935), Laura Thérèse (1847-1931) and Adèle Hannah (1843-1922) who gifted 107 boxes to the Louvre including three also by Charles-Barnabé Sageret, see S. Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, p. 156, nos. 188, 189 and 190.