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Round bonbonniere in gold and enamel, Louis XVI period, Master Goldsmith René Antoine Bailleul

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Round bonbonniere in gold and enamel, Louis XVI period, Master Goldsmith René Antoine Bailleul

€12800

Era: Louis XVI, 18th century.
Materials: gold, enamel.
Diameter: 2.4 in / Height : 0.8 in.
Weight: 2.8 oz.
Charge mark: Jean-Baptiste Fouache (1775-1781).
Guarantee mark: Crowned letter Q for Paris 1779.
Release mark: Tête de singe (Monkey head) (1775-1781).
Reinspection of gold: Eagle head.

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Guilloché gold candy box enamelled with a translucent ruby-red enamel. Fine gold paillons and fillets are inlaid in the enamel. A painted enamel medallion adorns the lid and green enamel interlacing mouldings underline the edges of the box. The same enamel motifs are repeated on the frame. The medallion depicts a young boy dressed in white and wearing a red sash. He is holding a feathered hat against a bucolic landscape with two doves frolicking near a spring.
The theme of childhood appeared very late in 18th-century painting. Sensitive to the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau as developed in the Emile, and desiring a return to naturalness and simplicity, many artists at the end of the 18th century, such as Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, began to paint young children. This bonbonnière is a good example of this thematic revival at the end of the 18th century.
Master Goldsmith René Antoine Bailleul, earned Master Goldsmith title in 1769. The Cognacq Jay museum in Paris has one of his snuff boxes in its collection.

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Round bonbonniere in gold and enamel, Louis XVI period, Master Goldsmith René Antoine Bailleul

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