STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Clocks, Ceramics and Vertu
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Clocks, Ceramics and Vertu
Lot Closed
September 9, 02:19 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A GOLD AND ENAMEL PORTRAIT BOX WITH TIMEPIECE, JACQUES-ALEXANDRE GUILLEMOT, PARIS, 1798-1809
of toothpick case form, the lid applied with two upright oval glazed panels, the upper containing a miniature on ivory of Elisa Baciocchi, by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, signed, with curled dark hair, the lower with white enamel dial signed: Malide & Marguerite, Arabic numerals and outer minute ring, blued steel hand, an aperture above with visible paste-set balance, the movement gilded cylinder escapement with sliding cover on the interior of the lid, the ground and sides decorated with delicate trailing foliage in dark blue enamel on a polished ground, the base with diagonally-striped engine-turning within a similar border, maker's mark, unofficial Paris petite garantie, Paris cock's head petite garantie 1798-1809
8.7cm., 3⅜in wide
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Elisa Bonaparte (1777-1820), a younger sister of Napoleon, was married in 1797 to Félix Baciocchi, a Corsican nobleman. Napoleon granted her the principalities of Piombino and Lucca and, in 1809, made her Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Elisa had both financial and artistic interests as a ruler of Tuscany and established an Académie des Beaux-Arts as well as encouraging the local pietra dura workshops. After her brother's defeat, Elisa assumed the title of Contessa di Compignano and moved first to Bologna and then to Trieste.
Jacques-Alexandre Guillemot first became master in 1783 sponsored by Jean-Antoine Robiquet, entering a mark on 18 July from the pont au Change where he remained until 1787 when he moved to the rue de la Barillerie until 1793. He entered a post-revolutionary mark for bijouterie : le tout around 1800 and is recorded in various almanacs at 42 quai des Orfèvres until around 1810.