AN FRENCH SILVER-GILT AND GLASS VASE

This talented and prolific Parisian silversmith was known for his work in the Empire style, such as a tea and coffee service made for Prince Lubomyrski of Cracow, 1809-1819, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Examples of his work in the Love Collection include a nécessaire de voyage (lot 168) and a tea urn (lot 178). Jacquart was also influenced by the fashion for Egyptian ornament, spurred by Napoleon's campaign in the Nile and the 1802 publication of Vivant Denon's Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les Campagnes du Général Bonaparte. Lots 173-175 reflect this taste, featuring elephant heads, Egyptianizing wigs of corkscrew curls, striated headdresses and conjoined feet.