Lot n° 8
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Paris 18th century: Master goldsmith François Joubert. Silve - Lot 8
Paris 18th century: Master goldsmith François Joubert. Silver vegetable dish with Paris hallmarks of 1775-1781 and the goldsmith François Joubert. Circular in shape with a straight body ending in a border of vine branches and bunches of grapes, two curved handles decorated with leaves. Domed lid, chiseled on the wing with a row of hollow radiating gadroons and a foliage border. The lid topped with a fretel decorated with an artichoke, asparagus, mushrooms, cabbage leaves, an onion, a parsnip and green onions. It is accompanied by a silver dish in the same style, made in France, with the hallmark of Victor Boivin (between 1897 and the beginning of the 20th century at the time of the takeover of his goldsmith's house by Ravinet Denfer. Hallmarking of the vegetable dish: On the lid and on the body: Maker's mark: Crowned fleur-de-lys, two grains, FJ, one heart. For François JOUBERT. Charge: Fleuronée and crowned for the generality of Paris under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Fouache between 1775 and 1781. Discharge: bull's head for large silver work Jurande: illegible On the fretel: Discharge: probably monkey's head for small silver work under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Fouache. François Joubert, master's son, received on September 6 1749 residing at Cour Lamavoine, Saint Barthélémy parish. On July 12, 1766, the Cour nouvelle du Palais was located until 1793. François Joubert's work is very varied. We know of him objects entirely in rocaille and at the end from his career other objects of rigid shapes, which already suggest the empire style. Very simple dishes and others more complicated and overloaded with ornaments, such as Madame de Pompadour's salt shakers formerly in the collections of Madame L. Burat. The terrine found today in the Louvre would fall into the category of sumptuous objects. Related pieces: The piece closest to our vegetable dish is François Joubert's terrine kept at the Louvre Museum in Paris. This one, from 1761-1762, presents a fretel very close to our vegetable dish. There is also an artichoke, cabbage leaves, mushrooms... This terrine comes from the collection of Countess Fumel-Aurillac, then Puiforcat, then in the Stavros S. Niarchos collections by whom it was donated to the Louvre Museum in 1955. Inventory number OA9668 https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010104565 The pendant is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. This terrine was copied numerous times by the goldsmith Puiforcat. A pair went on sale in December 2020 and came from the Parisian boutique in the old city. An oil pot by the goldsmith François Joubert from 1752 -1753 was included in the Jourdan-Barry collection, number 229 in the catalog published by Galerie Kugel. I It went on sale at Sotheby's Paris on April 18, 2012 (Sale price: 114,750 euros). https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/collection-raymond-et-pierre-jourdan-barry-collection-dorfvrerie-franaise-des-xviie-et-xviiie-sicles/lot.34. html Literature: FUHRING P., BIMBENET-PRIVAT M., KUGEL A., French goldsmithing, the Jourdan-Barry collection, J. Kugel, 2005, n° 229. MABILLE Gérard, The Puiforcat collection. Donation of Stavros S. Niarchos to the Department of Art Objects. Goldsmithing from the 17th to the 19th century, [Louvre Museum], Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1994, no. 24. NOCQ Henry, Le poinçon de Paris: directory of master goldsmiths in the jurisdiction of Paris from the Middle Ages to 'at the end of the 18th century, 1927.
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