Lot Essay
Ange-Joseph Aubert was apprenticed to Pierre Germain for twelve years and struck his mark in 1762. In 1768, he stood sponsor to the gold box maker Pierre-Franois Mathis de Beaulieu. By 1773, he was joaillier du Roi and supplied the greater part of the corbeille de mariage of the Countess of Artois, wife of the future King Charles X of France. In 1774, he was recorded as Jeweller to the King and to the Crown, with an address in the Louvre. In the same year, he was the sixth most successful member of the goldsmiths guild of Paris. He was last mentioned in 1775.
Charles Truman (The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles, 1991, no. 22, p. 82) illustrates a snuff-box by Aubert and notes that Aubert's "mark is rarely found on boxes".
Charles Truman (The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles, 1991, no. 22, p. 82) illustrates a snuff-box by Aubert and notes that Aubert's "mark is rarely found on boxes".