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Arranged around these and spilling out from two cornucopias are goods, including a tablet book, a ring, seals and buttons, dishes, a pearl necklace, flasks, a crozier, a monstrance and a box of jewels, whilst to the sides are more items on ledges including a candlestick, ewer, sugar caster, a knife and spoon, jewellery, and a jug and vase.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Jacques Thierce","id":"AUTH316423"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"Probably. This card is a trade card for Thierce's business so may have been commissioned by him from an unknown engraver."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"card","id":"x30344"}],"techniques":[{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"engraving","categories":[{"text":"Trade cards","id":"THES48882"},{"text":"Ephemera","id":"THES252985"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC (VA)","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"GG","shelf":"65","box":"A"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"La Rochelle","id":"x43713"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1700","earliest":"1695-01-01","latest":"1704-12-31"},"association":{"text":"engraved","id":"AAT53225"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"Late 19th century","earliest":"1850-01-01","latest":"1899-12-31"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":"Probable date of this impression being made."}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"7.625","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"1950","earliest":"1950-01-01","latest":"1950-12-31"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"5.625","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"1950","earliest":"1950-01-01","latest":"1950-12-31"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"A L'AIGUIERRE D'OR\r\nJACQUES THIERCE. Orphevre [sic]. Vend toutes sortes\r\nd'Ouvrages d'Or et d'Argent, Ouvrages d'Eglise, de Cuisine,\r\net de toilette, toutes sortes de bagues, de Diamants, d'Eme-\r\nraudes et de toutes sortes de Pierres de Couleur, Boucles\r\nd'Oreilles, Boucles de Ceinture, generalement toutes sortes\r\nde Bijoux, il achette aussi le viel Argent Cassé et vieux\r\ngalons brulez et toutes sortes de vieille vaiselle.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"At the Golden Ewer, Jacques Thierce. Goldsmith. Sells all sorts of gold work and silver work, metalwork for churches, kitchen ware and dressing-table objects, all sorts of rings, diamonds, emeralds and all sorts of coloured stones. Earrings, belt buckles, generally all sorts of jewellery. He also buys old broken silver and old burnished braid and all sorts of old vessels.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Translation courtesy of the Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon, who have another impression of this card in their collection database. (acc no.  3686.2.73.184)"}],"objectHistory":"Philippa Plock, curator of the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon, has the following to say about their impression of this card (collection no.: 3686.2.73.184) and how it relates to our example.\n\n'The design appears to have been based on the card of Wyriot, dated 1725, see 3686.1.52.98. Some motifs, for example the book at lower left of the image, appear to have been copied in reverse from Wyriot's card. The style of the card suggests an earlier date, however it may be a case of a provincial goldsmith having a Parisian card copied in an old fashioned manner.\r\n\r\nThere is a slightly different example of the card in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Prints and Drawings, E.216-1950, image and text size: 193 x 140, which gives Thierce's address as La Rochelle.\r\n\r\nJacques Thierce is not listed in Nocq, however there is a Siméon Thierce, active c. 1714, rue Saint- Louis, Paris, which may be a relation.'\r\n\n- Phillippa Plock, 2008 (from Rothschild collection database)\n\nReference: Henry Nocq; <u>Le Poinçon de Paris. Répertoire des maîtres-orfèvres de la juridiction de Paris depuis le moyen-âge jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle</u>; 5 vols; Paris; 1926-1931. vol. 4, p. 47, on Siméon Thierce ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Trade card for Jacques Thierce, goldsmith and jeweller, La Rochelle. France, c.1700. Possibly a late 19th century impression.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1950</u>, London: HMSO, 1962."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"ewer","id":"AAT45666"},{"text":"cartouche","id":"AAT10256"},{"text":"seals","id":"AAT28877"},{"text":"buttons","id":"AAT239261"},{"text":"dishes","id":"AAT42973"},{"text":"rings","id":"AAT46012"},{"text":"pearls","id":"x39965"},{"text":"flasks","id":"AAT45671"},{"text":"crozier","id":"x35914"},{"text":"monstrance","id":"AAT83005"},{"text":"jewellery box","id":"x43754"},{"text":"candlestick","id":"AAT37588"},{"text":"sugar caster","id":"AAT43031"},{"text":"knife","id":"x31542"},{"text":"spoon","id":"AAT43149"},{"text":"vases","id":"AAT132254"},{"text":"jugs","id":"AAT45685"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.216-1950"],"accessionNumberNum":"216","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1950,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}