Toilet set in silver plated and lacquered metal by Jean Vincent Huguet around 1770
It includes a beard dish and a sponge ball.
Punches of title and master goldsmith. Accidents.
L of the bearded dish 35 cm
H. of the ball 10 cm
According to the research of Mrs. Bimbenet-Privat concerning the manufacture of copper lined with silver,
the first mention of this technique is due to the goldsmith Alexis Micaleff and to an engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées
Chaussées, Jean-Baptiste de Gournay who sent a memorandum to the Academy of Sciences in 1766.
In 1770, a second factory, that of Jean-Vincent Huguet, opened at the Hôtel de Fer, rue
Beaubourg. Here is what Huguet announced in his promotion published in the Mercure de France: "To
join cleanliness to utility, all the surfaces will be covered with a varnish imitating enamel which will be of
of the greatest beauty and which will resist the action of the fire". However, after a bitter struggle between the two
Jean-Vincent Huguet had to close his doors at the beginning of 1773.
A superb flat-bottomed terrine as well as a pair of large terrines on their display stands with the hallmark of
Jean-Vincent Huguet were part of the David-Weill collection, Ader Picard Tajan, Drouot 1971 (vol. I n° 26).
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