A Park Avenue Treasury: The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection
A Park Avenue Treasury: The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection
A Gold, Enamel and Micromosaic Snuff Box, the Micromosaic Attributed to Weckler, St Petersburg, Circa 1840, the Box Nicolas Huguet, Paris, Circa 1810
Session begins in
June 18, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Bid
8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
rectangular with cut corners, the lid later set with an oval mosaic plaque representing a summer troika, within gold locket frame, on an engine-turned ground within blue taille d'épargne enamel foliate borders, the sides and base with concentric engine-turning, in leather case, maker's mark, Paris troisième titre 1809-1819,
Width 3 5/8 in.
9.2 cm
Haydn Williams, Snuff Boxes from a Private Collection, London, 2012, p. 38, no. 19
Nicolas Huguet was received as a master goldsmith in Paris in June 1787; he was recorded in the Almanach du Commerce until 1815 and the Almanach Azur until 1816.
Riga-born George Ferdinand Weckler (1800-1861) began his career in the arts as a glass painter in Moscow. During this period, Weckler was introduced to and studied under Domenico Moglia, a Roman mosaicist. With his reputation blooming, Weckler relocated to St Petersburg in 1821, soon becoming Master of Mosaics at the Academy of Fine Arts and undertaking several imperial commissions, including a life-size copy of Raphael's Transfiguration during a stay in Rome between 1834 and 1838 which was purchased by Emperor Nicholas I for an astounding 25,000 roubles.
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