Adolphe-Victor Geoffrey Dechaume
Jewel Casket1867

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Responses to Industrialization

Artist or Maker: Adolphe-Victor Geoffrey Dechaume
France, 1816-1892
Artist or Maker: François-Désiré Froment-Meurice
Artist or Maker: Emile Froment-Meurice
Artist or Maker: Jean-Jacques Feuchère
Artist or Maker: Félix Duban
Artist or Maker: Louis-Joseph Grisée
Manufacturer: Maison Froment-Meurice
Silversmith: Jules Wièse
Title: Jewel Casket
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1867
Medium: Silver, gilt-metal, emeralds, garnets, lapis lazuli, enamel, and velvet
Dimensions: a) Casket: 15 3/4 x 14 x 10 1/2 in. (40.01 x 35.56 x 26.67 cm); b) Base: 1 3/8 x 16 1/8 in. (3.49 x 40.96 cm); Overall: 17 5/8 x 16 1/8 x 12 1/2 in. (44.77 x 40.96 x 31.75 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick in honor of the museum's 40th anniversary through the 2002 Collectors Committee
Accession Number: M.2005.174a-b
Classification: Furnishings
Collecting Area: Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography: Hellmuth, Silke. "Jules Wièse, héritier de François-Désiré Froment-Meurice: sur les traces d'un orfèvre et de son œuvre singulière." Revue de l'Art, no. 185 (2014): 9-17.
"2005-2006 Selected Acquisitions." LACMA Insider 4, no.1 (2006): 4-7.