BY LOUIS-PHILIPPE DEMAY (FL. 1758-1772), MARKED, PARIS, 1760/1761, WITH THE CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF ELOY BRICHARD 1756-1762, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 62

細節

A LOUIS XV VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
by Louis-Philippe Demay (fl. 1758-1772), marked, Paris, 1760/1761, with the charge and discharge marks of Eloy Brichard 1756-1762, struck with inventory number 62
Oval box, the cover, sides and base boldly chased and engraved in four-colour gold with trophies of music on radiating sunrise grounds, framed by reeded and fluted c-scrolls interspersed with flowerheads and foliage
2 15/16 in. (74 mm.) wide
3¾ oz. (112 gr.)

來源

Etienne Gabriel Brunet (1725-1789), Nantes and Vierzon, trader and Royal Councillor.
His son Etienne Nicolas Brunet (1780-1862).
Thence by direct family descent to the present owner.

注意事項

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拍品專文

Whilst it is already rare to find Louis XV gold snuff-boxes having descended in noble families from the first to the present owner, the survival and direct provenance of these precious objects within families of the bourgeoisie is of exceptional character.
Louis-Philippe Demay worked for the services of the Présents du Roi and of the Menus Plaisirs of King Louis XV. Among his clients was also the notorious Countess du Barry. According to Serge Grandjean (Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, p. 79), only eleven boxes by Demay are recorded, all dated between 1760 and 1769. These include the four snuff-boxes in the Louvre and the three boxes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the present hitherto unrecorded box is an interesting addition to Demay's oeuvre.