BY JULES WIESE (FL. 1858-1890), MARKED, PARIS, CIRCA 1870

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A FRENCH JEWELLED SILVER-GILT HAND SEAL
BY JULES WIESE (FL. 1858-1890), MARKED, PARIS, CIRCA 1870
formed as a hunter sounding his horn, standing with his horse beneath a tree, his dog and a dead deer lying on the ground beside him, a cabochon red garnet surmounting the handle, the matrix engraved with a French coat-of-arms
3 7/8 in. (98 mm.) high
gross weight 5.7 oz. (176 gr.)
The arms are those of Le Clerc impailing de Percin de Montgaillard de Lavalette, for Charles-Léon-Ernest Le Clerc (1825-1886), Marquis de Juigné, MP for Sarthe 1871-1876 and his wife Charlotte-Bernadine-Auguste, née de Percin de Montgaillard de Lavalette, whom he married in 1844.

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Jules Wiese was born in Berlin in 1818 and christened Julius. He became a pupil of Johann Georg Hossaeur, the Berlin court goldsmith, in 1834. Wiese moved to Paris in 1839 and began his association with the Parisian jeweller François-Désiré Froment-Meurice. Eventually establishing an independent workshop in 1858 at 48 rue de L'Arbre Sec, Wiese was awarded a gold medal at the 'London World Exhibition' in 1862 for his jewellery in the Renaissance style.

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