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Boite en or de trois couleurs par Aymé-Antoine Chollet, Paris, 1771
Description
- Boite en or de trois couleurs par Aymé-Antoine Chollet, Paris, 1771
- gold
- Long. 5,5 cm ; 2 1/8 in
oval, engine-turned overall with wave patterns within coloured gold ovolo borders, the sides divided by husks and pilasters, maker's mark, charge and discharge marks of Julien Alaterre
Catalogue Note
The Paris hôpital de la Trinité in the rue St Denis had become, in the 16th century, virtually the first training establishment for arts and crafts. Its initial responsibility for the care of orphans and children in peril had become more structured as it prepared children for a métier with education and apprenticeships. The Trinité was allowed to nominate one candidate per year for mastership in each of the official Parisian trades. Aymé-Antoine Chollet was admitted to the Trinité in 1755 and registered his maker’s mark (EAC a triangle) the following year when a place became available, the numbers being strictly limited. He registered a new mark (AAC un coq – that on the current) with the Goldsmiths’ Guild, ten years later. Chollet acted as warden in the Guild in 1768/9 and grand warden in 1782/3. He was recorded in the Almanach at the sign of the ‘Château de Namur’ on the pont Notre-Dame, ‘pour le bijou d’or’ and continued to work at various addresses until 1791.