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It is in the rococo style, an artistic fashion which emerged in France in the early eighteenth century as a continuation of the Baroque style and it was characterised by a light playfulness with shell-like curves as a recurrent motif.  This copperplate engraving was produced for the private use of goldsmiths and could be used as an aid to producing further designs by modification in pencil, or could be used as a base to try out enamel or gold colours.  It could also be shown to potential customers. \r\n\r\nThis print was made by an anonymous designer in about the 1750s to1760s and it is from an album of designs which date from about 1735-1820 and  includes those for snuffboxes, scent holders, watches and watch cases, spoons, fans and fan mounts, small swords, and chatelaines (ornamental chains, pins, or clasps usually worn at a woman's waist, to which trinkets, keys, purses, or other articles are attached).  \r\n\r\nThere is a close relationship between the contents of the album and known work by three Parisian goldsmiths, Jean Ducrollay (1710-1787), Pierre-François Drais (active 1761-1788), and Charles Ouizille (1744-1830) whose names appear on the first page of the album. This suggests that all the designs emanate from their workshops.  Drais worked for the Court at Versailles as jeweller to both King Louis XV and Louis XVI. Ouizille worked in this capacity for Louis XVI. Most of the material dates from the period 1755-90.","physicalDescription":"Design, printed, for a gold box lid with rococo decoration.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"},{"text":"wash","id":"AAT11051"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Printing","id":"AAT53319"},{"text":"Painting","id":"x30598"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Handcoloured copperplate engraving on paper","categories":[{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2010EA4365","2010DN9893"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"SB5","shelf":"SH6","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"designs","id":"AAT102051"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca.1750-1760","earliest":"1745-01-01","latest":"1760-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with the assistance of Wartski Limited","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"6.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"8.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Design form album of designs by Ouizille, French, eighteenth century.\r\nNOT TO BE ISSUED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE HEAD OF DESIGNS","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Heike Zech,<u> 'Designs for Gold Boxes in the Album of the Workshop of Jean Ducrollay and his Successors'</u>, in <i>Going for Gold: craftsmanship and collecting of gold boxes</i>, ed. Tessa Murdoch and Heike Zech (Sussex academic press, 2014). "}],"production":"Attribution note: This design was made from a copperplate engraving and produced for the private use of goldsmiths.  This copperplate engraving was used as a base to try out enamel or gold colours.  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