Damn in chopped gold, guilloche and enamelled blue, painted enamel: ancient scene. Joseph-Etienne Blerzy (master in 1768). 1778-1779. Paris, Cognacq-Jay museum. This box is of a simple model which seems to have had some success. The background guilloche of parallel wave lines receives the light and nuances the blue of the king of the translucent enamel. The moldings of the lid, the return of the lid and the base of the base, are half-pales in opalescent enamel on the background of Amati gold. Fine gold moldings and white opaque enamel nets highlight them. They also underline the blue panels of
Damn in chopped gold, guilloche and enamelled blue, painted enamel: ancient scene. Joseph-Etienne Blerzy (master in 1768). 1778-1779. Paris, Cognacq-Jay museum. This box is of a simple model which seems to have had some success. The background guilloche of parallel wave lines receives the light and nuances the blue of the king of the translucent enamel. The moldings of the lid, the return of the lid and the base of the base, are half-pales in opalescent enamel on the background of Amati gold. Fine gold moldings and white opaque enamel nets highlight them. They also underline the blue panels of the basket, separated by half-grapes in opalescent enamel arranged vertically. The miniature appearing on the lid of this box represents an ancient scene. Its menu drawing and the slightly rosé enamel which covers the painting are quite characteristic of the Geneva enamels (cf. Los Llanos, José de, Grégoire, Christiane, Gold boxes and objects of virtue, Paris, Paris-Musées, 2011, p. 110). BLEU-DE-ROI, CHISELED GOLD, EMAIL PEINT, EMAILLE, ENAMEL, ENAMELLED, GUILLOCHE, OR CISELE, PAINTED, ROYAL BLUE, SCENE ANTIQUE, SCENE ANTIQUITY, SNUFFBOX, TABATIERE, TOP VIEW, VUE DESSUS
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