FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800

Two nude young children playing in a pond; one boy holding a mallard, the other holding a fishing rod in his left hand and feeding a worm to the mallard, a mallard diving for food; stone and foliage background

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FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800
Two nude young children playing in a pond; one boy holding a mallard, the other holding a fishing rod in his left hand and feeding a worm to the mallard, a mallard diving for food; stone and foliage background
2¾ in. (69 mm.) diam., set in the cover of a French circular gold-lined bonbonnière by Jean-Baptiste Saint-Yves, Paris, 1795-1809, the sides and base incrusted with a pattern in gold and silver piqué posé

來源

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30 June 1975, lot 48.

拍品專文

Jean-Baptiste Saint-Yves specialised in the 'garniture de tabatières et de tabletterie'; nevertheless, Serge Grandjean (Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1982, p. 242, no. 349) considered the bonbonnière in the Louvre as the only recorded work of this goldsmith.