BY JOSEPH-ETIENNE BLERZY (FL. 1768-1808), MARKED, PARIS, 1781/1782, WITH THE SECOND CHARGE AND DECHARGE MARKS OF HENRI CLAVEL 1780-1782, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 238

Joseph-Etienne Blerzy was apprenticed in 1750 to Francois-Joachim Aubert and became a master in 1768. A prolific goldsmith of often elaborately decorated boxes, his work can be found in the Wallace Collection, The Gilbert Collection and the Louvre. A box in the Louvre has similarly decorated enamel panels, see S. Grandjean, Les tabatières du musée du Louvre, Paris, 1981, no. 38. Blerzy died in 1806 when he is recorded as living at 3 rue du Coq-St Honoré.