拍品 56
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A LOUIS XVI GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX
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A LOUIS XVI GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX

BY ADRIEN-JEAN-MAXIMILIEN VACHETTE (1753-1839), MARKED, PARIS, 1787/1788, WITH THE SECOND CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF HENRY CLAVEL 1782-1789 AND THE RESTRICTED EXCISE MARK FOR GOLD, PARIS 1819-1838, THE MINIATURE BY JOHANN FRIEDRICH ARDIN, SIGNED AND DATED 1715 ON THE COUNTER-ENAMEL

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A LOUIS XVI GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX
BY ADRIEN-JEAN-MAXIMILIEN VACHETTE (1753-1839), MARKED, PARIS, 1787/1788, WITH THE SECOND CHARGE AND DISCHARGE MARKS OF HENRY CLAVEL 1782-1789 AND THE RESTRICTED EXCISE MARK FOR GOLD, PARIS 1819-1838, THE MINIATURE BY JOHANN FRIEDRICH ARDIN, SIGNED AND DATED 1715 ON THE COUNTER-ENAMEL
Oblong octagonal box, the cover set with an oval enamel on copper miniature of Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne (1671-1723), the cover, sides and base decorated with a peaked pattern of lozenge-shaped studs within blue enamel borders, the base with an oval central motif of a swirling foliate rosette on blue taille d'épargne enamel ground
3 5/8 in. (91 mm.) wide
來源
Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979) Collection; Christie's, Geneva, 12 November 1985 (evening sale), lot 55.
Phillips, Geneva, 19 November 1997, lot 140 (the miniature as a portrait of Louis XVI).
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拍品專文

Archbishop Joseph Clemens was a son of Elector Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria and his wife, Henrietta Adelaide of Savoy. He fathered three children and provoked many by bringing their mother to the Bonn Court, though he claimed to no longer have intimate relations with her. He is buried in Cologne Cathedral. The counter-enamel of Ardin's miniature is signed and dated 'Jean Friderich Ardin.. pinxit A.o i7i5..', thus pre-dating by three years the otherwise identically signed version illustrated in W. Holzhausen, Kurkölnische Hofmaler des 18. Jahrhunderts, Cologne, 1957, p. 12, fig. 5. Both enamels are copied after Joseph Vivien's large-scale portrait of the Archbishop-Elector.