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拍品 79
A LOUIS XVI GOLD AND HARDSTONE SNUFF BOX
BY ADRIEN-JEAN-MAXIMILIEN VACHETTE (FL. 1753-1839), PARIS, 1784; WITH CHARGE AND DECHARGE OF HENRI CLAVEL, 1783-1789, WITH POST-REVOLUTIONARY MAKER'S MARK, PETITE RECENSE POUR LES OUVRAGES MARQUES DES POINCONS DE L'ANCIEN REGIME AND PETITES RECENCES FOR PARIS 1809-1819 AND 1819-1838
已結束2023年7月7日
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Adrien Vachette was one of the best-known of the Parisian gold box makers at the turn of the 18th to the 19th Century. Born in Cauffry and possibly apprenticed with Pierre-François Drais, he registered his mark in 1779. His shop was Place Dauphine in Paris, and he worked for a time with Marie-Etienne Nitot, one of the court jewellers of Emperor Napoleon I and with the firm of Ouizille and Lemoine after the restoration of the monarchy. In 1816, Charles Ouizille and Adrien Vachette became the official jewellers of Louis XVIII's court.
A prolific designer and one of the most noted master craftsman of his generation, Vachette is best known for the production of ornate gold boxes and the use of natural materials like tortoiseshell and especially hardstones.