SHAKO D'OFFICIER DE CHASSEUR DE LA GARDE NATIONALE, MODÈLE 1830, MONARCHIE DE JUILLET.
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OFFICER'S SHAKO OF THE CHASSEURS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD, MODEL 1830, JULY MONARCHY.
Body made of cardboard covered in silk fabric, measuring 24 cm in height, bordered by a 3.3 cm silver braid at the upper part and a black velvet headband. Black waxed crown with a diameter of 25.5 cm (some wear on the rear edge for 7 cm). Visor made of black waxed leather on the outside and green on the inside.
Tri-color silk woven cockade with a diameter of 6.6 cm.
High-quality metal plate, silver-plated or possibly made of solid silver, signed by the armorer "BRIET", of the 1830 type, embossed with a radiant sun in the foreground with a Gallic rooster perched on a cannon surrounded by a bundle of flags and laurel branches. At the bottom, a shield richly decorated with beaded framing rods ending in acanthus leaves; in the center of the shield is a medallion with a hunting horn framed by oak branches. Height of the plate 13.8 cm, width 11 cm.
Jugular covered with a series of 15 silver scales cut into festoons. Round rosette stamped in the center with a hunting horn on a sanded background bordered by a protruding molding (diameter 4 cm). Length of the jugular 22 cm.
Interior lining made of black waxed basane leather cut into wolf teeth.
Without pompom.
Good state of preservation, visor worn.
France.
July Monarchy.
PROVENANCE:
Former collection of Hippolyte Marie-Joseph Boivin (Guermantes, September 8, 1857, Bouvresse, June 19, 1912).
This scholar of the late 19th century assembled a collection of very important patriotic faience, which was exhibited several times in French museums.
With a collector's temperament, Hippolyte Boivin gathered faience from Rouen, Marseille, Strasbourg, Delft, Nevers, enamel dial watches from the First Empire, ancient limbs, Norman and Picard cabinets and clocks, trunks and clocks from various eras, tapestries, and rattles from all over France and even from abroad.
His grandson recounts that H. Boivin and his wife traveled from village to village, buying all objects that seemed of interest to them. These acquisitions enriched his own collections and those of the museum of Beauvais, where he was the curator from 1889 to 1912. In this collecting venture, he also became passionate about military memorabilia, mainly headgear, brasswork, bridle bits, and various historical artifacts.
He had a gallery built in his garden to house his military collections, which would later be displayed in the "Boivin room" at the Dejean barracks (Amiens), destroyed during the Second World War. Hippolyte Boivin showed his preference for patriotic faience by reproducing through drawing and watercolor the pieces he had collected. Two motives could explain this attraction: firstly, his family's exile from Champagne during the German invasion of 1870 may have instilled in him a taste for patriotic and military objects; secondly, his maternal grandfather's profession, operating a stoneware pottery factory in La Chapelle-aux-Pots, may have encouraged his interest in ceramics.
The objects forming the collection of this enlightened amateur were all purchased based on opportunities encountered "in the field," and given the collection period: from the fall of Napoleon III until the eve of the Great War, their homogeneity has been particularly well preserved.
Body made of cardboard covered in silk fabric, measuring 24 cm in height, bordered by a 3.3 cm silver braid at the upper part and a black velvet headband. Black waxed crown with a diameter of 25.5 cm (some wear on the rear edge for 7 cm). Visor made of black waxed leather on the outside and green on the inside.
Tri-color silk woven cockade with a diameter of 6.6 cm.
High-quality metal plate, silver-plated or possibly made of solid silver, signed by the armorer "BRIET", of the 1830 type, embossed with a radiant sun in the foreground with a Gallic rooster perched on a cannon surrounded by a bundle of flags and laurel branches. At the bottom, a shield richly decorated with beaded framing rods ending in acanthus leaves; in the center of the shield is a medallion with a hunting horn framed by oak branches. Height of the plate 13.8 cm, width 11 cm.
Jugular covered with a series of 15 silver scales cut into festoons. Round rosette stamped in the center with a hunting horn on a sanded background bordered by a protruding molding (diameter 4 cm). Length of the jugular 22 cm.
Interior lining made of black waxed basane leather cut into wolf teeth.
Without pompom.
Good state of preservation, visor worn.
France.
July Monarchy.
PROVENANCE:
Former collection of Hippolyte Marie-Joseph Boivin (Guermantes, September 8, 1857, Bouvresse, June 19, 1912).
This scholar of the late 19th century assembled a collection of very important patriotic faience, which was exhibited several times in French museums.
With a collector's temperament, Hippolyte Boivin gathered faience from Rouen, Marseille, Strasbourg, Delft, Nevers, enamel dial watches from the First Empire, ancient limbs, Norman and Picard cabinets and clocks, trunks and clocks from various eras, tapestries, and rattles from all over France and even from abroad.
His grandson recounts that H. Boivin and his wife traveled from village to village, buying all objects that seemed of interest to them. These acquisitions enriched his own collections and those of the museum of Beauvais, where he was the curator from 1889 to 1912. In this collecting venture, he also became passionate about military memorabilia, mainly headgear, brasswork, bridle bits, and various historical artifacts.
He had a gallery built in his garden to house his military collections, which would later be displayed in the "Boivin room" at the Dejean barracks (Amiens), destroyed during the Second World War. Hippolyte Boivin showed his preference for patriotic faience by reproducing through drawing and watercolor the pieces he had collected. Two motives could explain this attraction: firstly, his family's exile from Champagne during the German invasion of 1870 may have instilled in him a taste for patriotic and military objects; secondly, his maternal grandfather's profession, operating a stoneware pottery factory in La Chapelle-aux-Pots, may have encouraged his interest in ceramics.
The objects forming the collection of this enlightened amateur were all purchased based on opportunities encountered "in the field," and given the collection period: from the fall of Napoleon III until the eve of the Great War, their homogeneity has been particularly well preserved.
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