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A varicoloured gold and enamel étui-à-cire, Charles le Bastier, Paris, 1776

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October 14, 05:38 PM GMT

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5,000 - 7,000 EUR

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A varicolour▨ed gold and enamel étui-à-cire, Charles le Bastier, Paris, 1776


of slightly tapering form with oval section, both sides decorated with shaped panels of translucent champagne-coloured enamel painted with brown winter branches, over wavy engine-turning, on an opaque white enamel ground, with chased gold flowerheads to corners, frame by acanthus borders an reeded rims, plain matrix, maker's mark, charge and discharge mark of Jean Baptiste Fouache (1774-1780), Paris date letter N for 1776

weight: 64.3 g

length 5 in.; 12,7 cm.

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Etui à cire en or de plusieurs couleurs et émail, Ch🔯arles le Bastier🐭, Paris, 1776


les deux faces ornées de panneaux en émail translucide décorées de branchages bruns peints, sur fond d'émail blanc opaque, poinçon d'orfèvre, poinçon de charge et de décharge de Jean Baptiste Fouache (1774-1780), lettre-date de Paris N pour 1776

weight: 64.3 g

length 5 in.; 12,7 cm.

Christie's London, 25-26 November 2014, lot 190.

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Christie's Londres, 25-26 novembre 2014, lot 190.

Charles Le Bastier, son of a Paris mercer of the same name, was apprenticed on 3 October 1738 at the age of 14, to Gabriel Vougny, marchand-orfèvre-joaillier. With the sponsorship of Jean Moynat, himself a noted gold box maker, Le Bastier became master goldsmith on 20 December 1754. He worked from the same premises in the rue Thévenot, near the rue St-Denis, until last recorded in 1783. Le Bastier was a successful and prolific maker of gold boxes who also supplied other retailers such as Jean-François Garand and Grancher of Du Petit Dunkerque, whose name or shopname appear engraved on the rims of several of Le Bastier’s boxes. In the special tax list of 1774, he was listed 9th in order of the importance of his business.