BY CHARLES-ALEXANDRE BOUILLEROT (FL 1769-1792), MARKED, PARIS, 1778/1779, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE 1774-1780

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A LOUIS XVI ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY CHARLES-ALEXANDRE BOUILLEROT (FL 1769-1792), MARKED, PARIS, 1778/1779, WITH THE CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE FOUACHE 1774-1780
oval box, the cover, sides and base each set with panels enamelled with winter branches painted in purple en camaïeu on an opalescent oyster-pink engine-turned ground, within white enamel fillets and polished gold frames, with translucent blue and opaque white beaded enamel outer borders, the sides pilasters with blue and white enamel palmettes
3. 1/8 in. (79 mm.) wide

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Charles-Alexandre Bouillerot was born around 1737 into a family of goldsmiths whose earliest known member was Nicolas Bouillerot (1720-1754). Charles-Alexandre apprenticed under Jean-Louis Bouillerot and was accepted as a master by the Cour des Monnaies in 1769. In 1774, he began to supply gold boxes to the prestigious firm Au Petit Dunkerque. At the beginning of the revolution he served as Captain of the Garde National Volontaire, but nothing is known of him after 1792.

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