Temple de l'Amour, Dieppe, fin du XVIIIe siècle

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Result : 2 500EUR
Temple de l'Amour, Dieppe, fin du XVIIIe siècle
Brown tortoiseshell circular box**. The lid and the bottom ringed in gold. The lid has a delicate composition carved in ivory*, under glass. In very fine sculpture and in relief, a woman offers her heart to a love who takes her hand. Behind him, a second love comes forward holding a torch. On the right, a tempietto welcomes the statue of Venus that a young woman and a love carrying two burning hearts on a tray. D. 8.2 cm Th. 2.4 cm. (Slight accidents, restorations and small missing items) Total weight: 101 g. Origin: inside, two labels, one with the number 49 and a second with the motto "Sparsa Colligo", indicating that it belongs to the "Collection Ase Maze n°721", Alphonse Maze-Sencier. The box is numbered 103 (p. 125) in the Catalogue of 18th century miniatures, snuffboxes, candy boxes (...) in Mr. Alph's collection. Maze-Sencier, dispersed in Paris, Drouot, in March 1886. Page 5, Spire Blondel mentions the "ivory boxes, [which] offer all that the Dieppe and Parisian ivory industry has produced most graceful and delicate". It is probably mentioned by A. Maze-Sencier himself in his Book of Collectors (p. 648), about his collection of ivory boxes: "temples, trees and small characters of extreme tenacity. The delicacy of this box must be compared to other very similar boxes kept at the Dieppe castle-museum. See page 152 in Tardy, Les ivoires (...), 1972.
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