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Rock Crystal Snuffbox, Various Gold And Enamel Mount, De Beaulieu, Paris, 1768-1774

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"Rock Crystal Snuffbox, Various Gold And Enamel Mount, De Beaulieu, Paris, 1768-1774"
- Snuffbox
- Rock crystal, colored gold and enamel setting
- Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu, master goldsmith from 1768-1791
- Paris, circa 1768-1774
- Diameter: 5.4 cm; height: 2.9 cm
- Good condition, a few scratches and a tiny chip to the crystal at the basis

- Circular rock crystal snuffbox with a various colored gold hinged mount decorated with garland festoons on an amati background alternating with blue lapis enameled oval. On the inside edge of the frame a workshop number is stamped “478”.

- Jean George and his widow are known to have used a numerical system stamped on the frame near the hinge, continued during the George & de Beaulieu association, without however following a chronological order: a box from 1771-72 is numbered “ 413” [2, Musée du Louvre OA 2162], another from 1773-74 bears the number “304”, one from 1768-1774 the number “285” [Waddesdon Manor, Inv 2724 & Inv. 2644]…

- Hallmarks (on the border): master goldsmith: PMB with a five-pointed star, fleur-de-lys crowned with two points, for Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu, Parisian master goldsmith from 1768-1791 [Nocq, I, pp. 97-88]; charge: fleur de bassinet, gold and small silver works, Paris from October 1, 1768 to November 18, 1774 [BP n°466]; discharge: a helmeted head in profile looking to the right, gold and medium silver works, Paris, from October 1, 1768 to November 18, 1774 [BP, n°468]; warden's mark (at the edge, only the crown and part of the letter visible).
- In 1752, Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu was apprenticed to the goldsmith Jean George, and appears to have worked for the goldsmith as a journeyman. In 1768, he was accepted as a goldsmith with the guarantee of the future jeweler of King Louis XVI, Ange-Joseph Aubert; he inscribes his hallmark by taking the different one from his master, a star. In 1765, on the death of his master, he took over the workshop under the leadership of the master's widow Jeanne-Françoise Texier; they married in December 1769 and continued their partnership until 1778 known as “Veuve Georges, Beaulieu et Guinet” at the address of Quai des Orfèvres. They were suppliers to Madame du Barry, including a “snuffbox and a souvenir” delivered to Louveciennes in 1771 at the price of 7,400 livres. For sale from his collection was registered on May 15, 1783, and was no longer listed among the goldsmiths in 1792. The snuff boxes of George and Beaulieu are exhibited in the Wallace collection [4, n°42-47, G.5 & 52], at the Louvre Museum [2, n°], at Waddesdon Manor, at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, at the Cleveland Museum…
-  Ref. : [1] Bimbenet-Privat & de Fontaine : "La datation de l’orfèvrerie parisienne sous l’ancien régime", Paris Musées, 1995 ; [2] Grandjean, Serge : " Catalogue des tabatières boîtes et étuis des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du Musée du Louvre », Réunion de Musées nationaux, 1981 ; [3] Snowman, Kenneth : « Eightheen century gold boxes of Europe », Faber and Faber, London, 1966 ; [4] Truman, Charles : « The Wallace collection : catalogue of gold boxes », The Wallace Collection Trustees, 2013

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