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Lot 27
  • 27

Boîte à poudre en or de trois tons par Pierre-Nicolas Pleyard, Paris, 1778

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • Boîte à poudre en or de trois tons par Pierre-Nicolas Pleyard, Paris, 1778

  • Pierre-Nicolas Pleyard fut apprenti en 1743 chez René Devaux et devint maître le 22 février 1759, tenant boutique rue St Louis, sous la caution du fabricant de boîtes Henri-Daniel Robineau. En 1772, il figure dans l'Almanach Dauphin, tenant boutique à l'enseigne La Providence, rue St Louis, pour « le bijou d'or ». Sa boutique est ensuite enregistrée à différentes adresses jusqu'en 1793 au moins. Il occupa un nombre de postes importants au sein de la corporation des orfèvres, vraisemblablement tout autant pour ses qualités d'organisation (il était également garde d'une église et administrateur de la paroisse) que pour ses affaires fleurissantes.  

  • Pierre-Nicolas Pleyard was apprenticed in 1743 to René Devaux and became master on 22 February from the rue St Louis, sponsored by the gold boxmaker Henri-Daniel Robineau. In 1772 he was listed in the Almanach Dauphin  in the same street, at the sign of la Providence, for 'le bijou d'or'. He is recorded at various addresses until at least 1793 and held a number of high positions in the Goldsmiths' Corporation doubtless as a result of his good organisational powers (he was also a churchwarden) as well as his success in business.

  • Diam. 7 cm ; 2 3/4 in
circulaire, le centre ciselé d'une rosace, les frises de culots en bas-reliefs, charge et décharge de J.B. Fouache, lettre-date de Paris pour 1778 

Condition

Very slight denting on sides otherwise remarkably crisp.
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