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Wallace Collection of Gold Boxes (Hardcover)
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Wallace Collection of Gold Boxes (Hardcover)
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The 18th-century gold snuffbox was the ultimate fashion accessory -
beautifully made, exquisitely decorated and very expensive, its
form and ornament subject to the changing taste of the time.
Playing an important role in self-promotion, diplomacy and
collecting, a box denoted status and could be used as currency for
its monetary value. Its practical purpose was usually secondary.
The collection of gold boxes at the Wallace Collection is small in
number, but contains some of the finest in any museum and can boast
of some of the most famous boxes in the world. The 99 pieces
catalogued here represent a brilliant cross-section of the products
of the European goldsmith between c. 1730 and 1830. The French
boxes will be well known to collectors and students of these
remarkable examples of the ability of goldsmiths, enamelers,
lapidaries and miniaturists to create something novel for each of
their discerning clients. The most famous makers in Paris - Jean
Ducrollay, Pierre-Francois Drais, Jean-Marie Tiron, Jean Fremin and
Louis Roucel- are well represented. However, research by Charles
Truman, one of the world's leading experts on gold boxes, has
changed the geography of the collection. We now know that most of
the boxes previously considered Swiss were actually made in
Germany. Outstanding examples - from Hanau, Berlin and Dresden in
particular - have now joined the masterworks of the French
goldsmiths. Among them is one of rare beauty by Johann Christian
Neuber, as well as signed enameled examples by Ignatius Peter
Krafft and Jean-Guillaume-George Kru]ger. In the introductory
essay, Charles Truman discusses the history of snuff-taking and the
development, manufacture and collecting of gold boxes. Throughout
the catalogue he places a particular emphasis on the design sources
from which the craftsmen responsible for these wonderful works of
art took their inspiration. Like the entire Collection, the Wallace
gold boxes are a monument to the taste of one family of great
collectors. Rebecca Wallis discusses the history of collecting and
display of the Wallace boxes, which were acquired over a period of
fifty years only and reflect the taste for these exquisite objects
during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Scientific
analysis of the boxes by Seoyoung Kim has brought new insights into
the standards of gold used in Europe, and in particular the wide
variations in those standards even in the best-regulated cities.
This beautiful publication considerably advances our knowledge and
appreciation of the Wallace Collection's gold boxes and establishes
their place in the scholarship of 18th-century decorative arts.
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