Design
ca.1760-1780 (made)
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Print of a design for an 'étui', a small ornamental case for carrying personal articles such as hairpins or toothpicks. The design is in a neo-classical style and was made by an anonymous designer working in Paris in about 1760-1780. There are two other impressions made from the same plate (E.897:7-1988 and E.897:290-1988).
Engravings of this kind were used by goldsmiths both to show to clients, and to guide the actual production of jewellery or metalwork. The design could be modified in pencil or ink and used as a base to try out enamel or gold colours.
This print is from an album of designs which date from about 1735-1820 and include snuffboxes, scent holders, watches and watch cases, spoons, fans and fan mounts, small swords, and chatelaines (ornamental chains, pins, or clasps usually worn at a woman's waist, to which trinkets, keys, purses, or other articles are attached). The binding is red morocco and the boards are stamped in gilt with the arms, now partly erased, of a member of the Bourbon family, probably Louis-Henri, Prince of Condé (1692-1740).
Engravings of this kind were used by goldsmiths both to show to clients, and to guide the actual production of jewellery or metalwork. The design could be modified in pencil or ink and used as a base to try out enamel or gold colours.
This print is from an album of designs which date from about 1735-1820 and include snuffboxes, scent holders, watches and watch cases, spoons, fans and fan mounts, small swords, and chatelaines (ornamental chains, pins, or clasps usually worn at a woman's waist, to which trinkets, keys, purses, or other articles are attached). The binding is red morocco and the boards are stamped in gilt with the arms, now partly erased, of a member of the Bourbon family, probably Louis-Henri, Prince of Condé (1692-1740).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Copperplate engraving on paper |
| Brief description | Design from album of designs by Ouizille, French, eighteenth century. NOT TO BE ISSUED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE HEAD OF DESIGNS |
| Physical description | Design, printed, for a neo-classical étui. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of Wartski Limited |
| Production | Attribution note: This design was made from a copperplate engraving and produced for the private use of goldsmiths. This copperplate engraving was used as a base to try out enamel or gold colours. It could also have been shown to potential customers. |
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| Summary | Print of a design for an 'étui', a small ornamental case for carrying personal articles such as hairpins or toothpicks. The design is in a neo-classical style and was made by an anonymous designer working in Paris in about 1760-1780. There are two other impressions made from the same plate (E.897:7-1988 and E.897:290-1988). Engravings of this kind were used by goldsmiths both to show to clients, and to guide the actual production of jewellery or metalwork. The design could be modified in pencil or ink and used as a base to try out enamel or gold colours. This print is from an album of designs which date from about 1735-1820 and include snuffboxes, scent holders, watches and watch cases, spoons, fans and fan mounts, small swords, and chatelaines (ornamental chains, pins, or clasps usually worn at a woman's waist, to which trinkets, keys, purses, or other articles are attached). The binding is red morocco and the boards are stamped in gilt with the arms, now partly erased, of a member of the Bourbon family, probably Louis-Henri, Prince of Condé (1692-1740). |
| Bibliographic reference | Heike Zech, 'Designs for Gold Boxes in the Album of the Workshop of Jean Ducrollay and his Successors', in Going for Gold: craftsmanship and collecting of gold boxes, ed. Tessa Murdoch and Heike Zech (Sussex academic press, 2014). |
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| Accession number | E.897:6-1988 |
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| Record created | May 31, 2006 |
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