"Chinese Porcelain Vase Mounted In Lamp By Boin-taburet à Paris 19th Century"
Chinese Porcelain vase mounted in Lamp by Boin-Taburet à Paris XVIIIth Century Chinese Porcelain Vase mounted in lamp
Hand-painted design of birds and insects among flowers and foliage
Silvered Bronze mounts
Signed underneath Boin-Taburet à Paris
Circa 1870
H 23 cm Diam 11 cm
Georges Boin was born in 1849 into a family of antique dealers and jewelers. His father and grandfather, Jacques Boin, had directed Mme Desarnaud’s «l'Escalier de Cristal» in 1804. They have known themselves for their crystal objects mounted on bronze. His uncles, Caillot and Peck, were jewelers in Paris until 1877.
Georges Boin began his career as a goldsmith and dealer of antique objects, then joined the jeweler Emile Taburet in 1860. The house, founded under both names, is distinguished in jewellery and shop window objects. For the first time it exhibits at the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1878 and obtains a bronze medal for a toilet service inspired by Pierre Germain.
For the Universal Exhibition of 1889, the house presents several items, notably inspired by Juste Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750), for which they obtain a gold medal, as well as Louis XIV and Louis XVI tea sets. On this occasion is also exposed a large soup-tureen on sleeping made in 1888 for the Jockey Club.
In the periodical Le Temps of 11 January 1889, the Boin-Taburet house is mentioned as follows:
Taburet’s house exhibits silverware of the purest style of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among these pieces, we will report a mainly table with candelabras from the time of Louis XIV, a Louis XV soup-tureen executed for the Jockey Club who gave it in prize in 1888. About this exhibition, Mr. Falize, rapporteur of class 24, in an article on the goldsmithing at the Exposition, published by the Gazette des beaux-arts, said
“It may be M. Boin-Taburet who more than any other goldsmith contributed to this return to the Louis XV. It is not an accusation that I make; on the contrary, I find that with a very personal taste and real tact he understood, guessed, felt what his clientele wanted; He rushed to offer her what she was going to ask for. Boin-Taburet won a gold medal, which the government may have found insufficient to recognize the merit of such a real goldsmith of remarkable talent, He has just given her the Knight’s Cross of the Legion of Honour.”
These objects attest to the popularity of the rocaille style in France in the 19th century, which Boin-Taburet was able to revive but also develop by offering a multitude of combinations. In 1893, the house published a collection of his works, as did Germain.
On 4 December 1893, Le Temps explained:
The inspiration of the masters does not exclude any originality, and we were able to realize it by examining various pieces of goldsmithing by M. Boin-Taburet, that an object strictly designed in a certain style can nevertheless keep a modern note and a personal stamp.
Emile Taburet and Georges Boin collaborated until 1900, when Boin became associated with the goldsmith Henry under the name «Boin et Henry orfèvres».
In 1906, at the International Exhibition of Milan, the house appears under the name «Henry Frères et Cie», 3 rue Pasquier in Paris. In 1936, the house became «Henry et Fils».
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