File:BLW Egg Cup (1).jpg

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Summary

Egg cup

1762-63
Jean Ducrollay (possibly)
Gold

Possibly associated with the workshop of Jean Ducrollay.
This gold egg cup is a masterpiece of early French Neoclassical design. It is in the �Gout-Grec� (Greek taste) fashionable in Paris in the early 1760�s. Shaped like an antique vase it looks as if it has been cut from stone and is heavily ornamented with swags of laurel. The egg cup has a detachable gold liner. What appears to be the working drawing for this egg cup is in an album in the V & A�s collection containing designs associated with the Parisian workshops of Pierre-Francois Drais, Charles Ouizille and Jean Ducrollay. The proportions and scale of this design are such that it could be used as easily for a large vase as it could an egg cup.

Purchased with the assistance of the Murray Bequest

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current15:01, 5 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 15:01, 5 January 20172,098 × 2,439 (939 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Egg cup<br><p>1762-63<br> Jean Ducrollay (possibly)<br> Gold<br><br> Possibly associated with the workshop of Jean Ducrollay.<br> This gold egg cup is a masterpiece of early French Neoclassical design. It is in the �Gout-Grec� (Greek taste) fashionable in Paris in the early 1760�s. Shaped like an antique vase it looks as if it has been cut from stone and is heavily ornamented with swags of laurel. The egg cup has a detachable gold liner. What appears to be the working drawing for this egg cup is in an album in the V & A�s collection containing designs associated with the Parisian workshops of Pierre-Francois Drais, Charles Ouizille and Jean Ducrollay. The proportions and scale of this design are such that it could be used as easily for a large vase as it could an egg cup.<br><br></p> Purchased with the assistance of the Murray Bequest
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