A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SEALING-WAX CASE

BY NOËL HARDIVILLIERS, MARKED, PARIS, 1768, WITH THE CHARGE MARK OF JEAN-JACQUES PREVOST

細節

A LOUIS XV ENAMELLED GOLD SEALING-WAX CASE
by Noël Hardivilliers, marked, Paris, 1768, with the charge mark of Jean-Jacques Prevost
Slightly tapering étui-à-cire of oval section, the cover and base decorated with flutes engine-turned with a money-pattern and enamelled in translucent green, the cover topped by a chased rosette surrounded by a similarly enamelled radiating tongue motif, the borders enamelled with opalescent beads alternating with translucent green dots, the rims bordered with horizontal reeding twisted with bands of acanthus, with plain matrix
121 mm. (4¾ in.) high

來源

Madame de Polès, Paris; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 June 1927, lot 65.

拍品專文

Noël Hardivilliers (1704-1779) was without doubt one of the most notable of the Parisian goldsmiths specialising in the fabrication of snuff-boxes and sealing-wax cases. Judging from the weight of the amount of gold for which he contracted, his production would correspond to twelve gold boxes per year. Owing to his long career, an important number of works by his hand have survived, and some of them can be admired in the Louvre, the Wallace Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum.