Metalwork Design
1800
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Design for a silver basket, Profile, full size 150 x 355. Diamonds work pattern around the body, with open sides in the form of overlapping round arches which form the open edge of the basket. The two sides showing alternative designs in detail, the right with rosettes at the top of the body and a plant husk in the arch, the left with rosettes in the open work.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil, pen and grey, black ink and grey wash. On wove paper. Laid down on card. |
| Brief description | Design for a silver basket, by Jean Jacques Boileau (active 1787 and died after 1851) circa 1800 |
| Physical description | Design for a silver basket, Profile, full size 150 x 355. Diamonds work pattern around the body, with open sides in the form of overlapping round arches which form the open edge of the basket. The two sides showing alternative designs in detail, the right with rosettes at the top of the body and a plant husk in the arch, the left with rosettes in the open work. |
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| Object history | On the upper part of the sheet is a pencil sketch for a basket base on lions’ paw feet, possibly related to the design on the lower part. It is faintly inscribed by the lions paws “3 in high” and “The Whole”.
The sketch may be for a plateau inspired by baskets motifs. This design contains decorative elements of classical inspiration that Jean Jacques Boileau often combines in designs for silver. This and the other drawings by J. J. Boileau and his school were probably in the collection of A. C. Pugin and sold at Mr Wheatley’s rooms,4th June 1843, lot 469, Boileau’s (J.) “Series of drawings appropriated to the gold and silversmiths”, bought by Williams for 3 shillings. |
| Bibliographic reference | Snodin, Connoisseur, J. J. Boileau A Forgotten Designer of Silver, page 124 to 133.
S. Jervis, Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers, Penguin Books 1984 |
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| Accession number | 8431:1 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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