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Bacchus and Silenus were Greek mythological figures, associated with wine and drunken revelry. They were painted by Jacques-Joseph de Gault, a prolific artist specialising in imitating cameos. A number of boxes mounted with his miniatures survive: thirteen are in the Musée du Louvre and others in public and private collections. He was commissioned to paint a jewel cabinet for the French queen Marie-Antoinette. \r\n\r\nThe maker of the box, Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette was part of an illustrious dynasty of goldsmiths. When he became a master, he was sponsored by Pierre-François Drais.  He later worked with Charles Ouizille.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  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Phillips Ltd, London, 1979.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Snuffbox with triumph of Bacchus, gold, enamel and glazed miniatures on ivory.  Paris, box: Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette, miniatures: Jean-Jacques de Gault, 1782-83","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Habsburg-Lothringen, Géza von. <u>Gold boxes from the collection of Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert</u>.  R. & A. Gilbert, 1983, 125 p., ill.  Cat no. 52, pp. 99-100.  ISBN. 0961039809."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Truman, Charles.<u>The Gilbert collection of gold boxes</u>, Vol. I.  Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1991, cat. no. 32, pp. 108-10.  ISBN.0875871623"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Williams, Elizabeth A. <u>The Gilbert Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art</u>.  Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), 2010, fig. 46, p. 80. 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