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- Knotting Shuttle
- Knotting shuttle (navette)
- Jean-Joseph Barrière (active between: 1763 - 1793)
- Paris, France
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- Date: 1772 - 1773
- Medium: Gold and enamel
- Weight: 53.1 g
- Length: 115 mm
- Width: 36 mm
- Height: 25 mm
- Inv: W293
- Location: Boudoir Cabinet
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- A varicoloured gold shuttle comprising two plaques with pierced borders, the outer rim bright-cut engraved with a border enclosing swags of green gold, with red gold shells enclosed by green gold foliage. Oval medallions of chased gold depict bagpipes, and a quiver of arrows with a torch, set against an enamelled marbled background. The centre of the top plaque is decorated with an enamel painting of a boy and girl with a birdcage, perhaps derived from a painting by François Boucher, but no exact model has been found. On the bottom plaque, a similar medallion depicts a girl with a dancing dog being watched by two boys.
As with the other shuttles, the top and bottom can be gently pulled apart to ease the thread wound round the shank.
- A varicoloured gold shuttle comprising two plaques with pierced borders, the outer rim bright-cut engraved with a border enclosing swags of green gold, with red gold shells enclosed by green gold foliage. Oval medallions of chased gold depict bagpipes, and a quiver of arrows with a torch, set against an enamelled marbled background. The centre of the top plaque is decorated with an enamel painting of a boy and girl with a birdcage, perhaps derived from a painting by François Boucher, but no exact model has been found. On the bottom plaque, a similar medallion depicts a girl with a dancing dog being watched by two boys.