Vachette (1753-1839) is one of the best known of the Parisian goldsmiths working at the turn of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Under Napoléon, he collaborated with Nitot, one of the jewellers to the Emperor, and during the Restoration, he worked with Ouizille. Henry Nocq (Le poinçon de Paris, reprint Paris, 1968, p. 76) praises Vachette thus: "Avant et après la Révolution les plus belles tabatières d'or sont marquées du poinçon de Vachette." Serge Grandjean (et alii, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Fribourg, 1975, p. 344) points out the importance of his cooperation with the miniaturist Jacques-Joseph de Gault (circa 1738-1817), as in the present case. The Louvre owns thirty-one boxes by Vachette, others are in the Wallace Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.