HEART-SHAPED BOX WITH FLOWERS
Creator(s): François-Guillaume Tiron (Attributed to)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The box is heart-shaped in cross section. Each of the four faces has a panel containing a cluster of flowers in painted colored enamel against a brown background. Each panel is framed with chased rococo scrolls in gold. The remaining areas are covered with a trellis in green basse-taille enamel centered by rosettes chased in gold.
- Object name:
- HEART-SHAPED BOX WITH FLOWERS
- Made from:
- Gold -- enamel
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- 1756-1762
- Size:
- 1 3/4 × 1 1/8 × 1 1/4 in. (4.4 × 2.9 × 3.2 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.4
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK: A shell (the discharge mark for medium size works for the Fermier General Eloy Brichard 1756-62) [On inner rim] Inview of the similarities between 11.3 and 11.4 and the rarity of their shape, they are likely by the same maker, Francois-Guillaume Tiron.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973