Maker
Charles Le Bastier
Maker name as recorded in the holding museum's catalogue: “Charles Le Bastier (French)”. Biographical and business details beyond that record have not been independently verified.
- Kind
- goldsmith
- Country
- France
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Catalogue entries (2)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
snuff boxes
Snuffbox, 1760–61
1760–61
Snuffbox in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession 48.187.434), catalogued by the museum's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts department. The museum dates it 1760–61. It is attributed to Charles Le Bastier (French, apprenticed 1738, master 1754, active 1783). The museum records the medium as Gold an…
Partial type record
Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene
snuff boxes
Snuff Box (Tabatière) (Cleveland Museum of Art 1957.406)
1777–78
This box’s black and white design imitates a type of agate patterned with black veins that look like the branches of a tree or aquatic plant. Enamel that simulated agate was popular around 1775–80, evoking an 18th-century French interest in natural curiosities, mineralogy, and botany. Charles Le Bastier himself made…
Partial type record
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