A FINE LOUIS XV STYLE ENAMEL AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX

MARKS RUBBED, THE ENAMEL PANEL ON THE COVER SIGNED AND DATED HAMELIN 1758

细节

A FINE LOUIS XV STYLE ENAMEL AND GOLD SNUFF-BOX
marks rubbed, the enamel panel on the cover signed and dated Hamelin 1758
Rectangular box, the cover, four sides and base inset with enamel plaques finely painted with flowers on marble ledges, on translucent steel grey enamelled panels engine-turned with a vertical narrow coin pattern, within bright-cut borders
82 mm. (3.1/4 in.) wide

来源

Lucien Surmont; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 13 May 1912, lot 48, illustrated (18,100 Francs to Gradt).
Founès, Paris (in 1924).

出版

Henri Clouzot, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail, Paris, 1924, p. 93 (praised as "d'excellente facture").
Henri Clouzot, La miniature sur émail en France, Paris, n. d. (circa 1925), p. 133.
Lise Moor, "Peintres sur émail franais du XVIIIe", L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, 232, January 1990, p. 83.

拍品专文

Hamelin's signed miniatures are extremely rare. There appear to be only three other recorded boxes incorporating signed works by his hand. Two of them are mounted on boxes by Jean Ducrollay, one in the Wallace Collection (illustrated in Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection - French Gold Boxes, London, 1991, no. 6), a second, dated 1758 as the present miniature, in the collection of the Taft Museum, Cincinnati (illustrated in Clare Le Corbeiller, European and American Snuff Boxes 1730-1830, London, 1966, no. 84). The third one, formerly in the Hawkins collection, enamelled en plein on a box by Claude Perron, was sold in these rooms on 10 November 1987, lot 392.