cadre en vermeil et argent par Jules Wiese, Paris, vers 1855

l'ouverture ovale entourée d'un treillage entrelacé de lierre, oiseaux et leurs nids, sur une tête d'ange, soutenu par un chevalet, poinçon de maître et garantie

the oval aperture surrounded by a rustic trellis intertwined with ivy tendrils and supporting birds and their nest over a cherub mask, easel support, maker’s mark and post 1838 warranty

slight wear but generally in excellent condition.
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Comme son contemporain Frédéric Philippi, Jules Wièse s'installa à Paris après avoir fait son apprentissage en Allemagne, son pays d'origine, précisemment avec Hossauer à Berlin. Wièse travailla d'abord comme chef d'atelier avec François-Désiré Froment-Meurice, puis ouvrit son propre atelier en 1844 avec 25 ouvriers, ayant un contrat exclusif avec son employeur précédant et en co-opération avec le ciseleur et modeleur Liénard. Après le décès de Froment-Meurice en 1855, il reprit également la direction de l'atelier qu'il laissa au fils, Jules, à sa majorité en 1865, pour se consacrer uniquement à sa propre affaire jusqu'à sa mort en 1890. Cet attachement aux Froment-Meurice explique à quel point sont rares les premiers objets portant le poinçon de Wièse, comme ce cadre. 

Like his contemporary Frédéric Philippi, Jules Wièse moved to Paris and set down roots after training in his native Germany, in his case with Hossauer in Berlin. Wièse at first worked for François-Désiré Froment-Meurice becoming chef d’atelier, but opened his own establishment in 1844 with twenty-five workmen, still working exclusively for his former employer and in co-operation with the designer and chaser Liénard. Following Froment-Meurice’s ultimely death in 1855, he also took on the management of the atelier again but was completely on his own from 1865 until his death in 1890 when the firm was finally taken over by Jules’s son Louis. Because of the link with Froment-Meurice, early objects with Wièse’s own mark, such as this frame, are rare.