MARK OF JEAN DUCROLLAY, PARIS, 1752; THE LACQUER JAPANESE, 17TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV GOLD-MOUNTED LACQUER CARNET-DE-BAL
MARK OF JEAN DUCROLLAY, PARIS, 1752; THE LACQUER JAPANESE, 17TH CENTURY
Rectangular, each side mounted en cage with a lacquer panel decorated in gold hiramakie on a black roironuri ground depicting pine trees and a pavilion beside a lake, the reverse in nashiji, the mounts chased with reeded strapwork sections of interlaced circles, fastening with a reeded gold pencil with flattened rosette finial and containing a gilt-edged note-book with blue silk cover, marked inside spine and on fastening, with charge and décharge of Julien Berthe
3 5/8 in. (9.1 cm.) long

Provenance

Almost certainly S. E. Kennedy Esq., 24 Upper Brook Street, W.1., whose collection of objects of vertu, arms and armor and antiquities was sold in a five-day sale, Christie's, London, 18-22 March 1918
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Library in the pre-1927 inventory as from the Kennedy Collection

Works of Art from Houghton, Christie's, London, 8 December 1994, lot 93

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Lot Essay

Jean Ducrollay (b. 1709) was among the most esteemed 18th-century Parisian goldsmiths. He entered his mark on 26 July, 1734 and by 1748 was living in the Place Dauphine. The livre journal of the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux records frequent purchases of lacquer boxes by Ducrollay, who is also recorded as a supplier of boxes to the Menus Plaisirs. For a full discussion on the trade in lacquer in 18th century France, see F. J. B. Watson, "Beckford, Mme. de Pompadour, the Duc de Bouillon and the Taste for Japanese Lacquer in 18th Century France," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February, 1963, p. 101-127

A related gold-mounted lacquer snuff box by Ducrollay, Paris 1750-1751, sold Christie's, Geneva, 12 November 1985, lot 72

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