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Jean-Pierre, son of the jeweller Benoît-Roch Marrel, registered his first mark, for la fantasie, from 19 rue Croix des Petits-Champs on 1st August 1833. The same mark was re-registered in 1852 for Marrel Frères. In fact, the two brothers, Jean-Pierre and Benoît, the latter an excellent designer and chaser, had already gone into business in the 1830s. According to the almanac Azur (1847), their workshop was at 23 rue des Moulins and their shop at 27 rue de Choiseuil. They won a gold medal at their first exhibition in 1839 (Produits de l'Industrie Française) where they showed 'a basket, two vases and a bowl decorated with enamelled arabesques'. By the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851, their only rivals were considered to be Froment-Meurice and Morel, although today Marrel frères are less well known.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Cup and Cover
Date
c.1840
Medium
gold, opaque champlevé & basse-taille enamel & diamonds
Accession number
531
Work type
Sculpture
