A young gentleman, in brown coat with silvered buttons, white waistcoat and white shirt with pleated cravat, powdered hair

Vachette was one of the best-known of the Parisian gold boxes makers at the turn of the 18th to the 19th Century. He struck his mark in 1779 and later worked together with Nitot, one of the court jewellers of Emperor Napoleon I. Henry Nocq (Le poinçon de Paris, Paris, 1968, [reprint], p. 76), praises Vachette: 'Avant et après la Révolution les plus belles tabatières d'or sont marquées du poinçon de Vachette'. The Louvre owns thirty-one boxes by Vachette, others are in the Wallace Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whilst Vachette was rather prolific as a gold box maker, his miniature pendant frames seem to be exceptionally rare.