From the Renaissance to the Second Empire: three sales in Paris

2/4/26 - Art market - Paris - “In You Have I Put My Hope; I Shall Not Be Confounded”. This verse from Psalm 31 appears — in Latin [1] — on a 16th-century cup to be auctioned by Daguerre at Drouot on 3 April (ill. 1). Its shape is borrowed from goldsmiths’ work, and the coats of arms visible on its foot suggest that it was made for a marriage between the Choiseul and Dinteville families; or perhaps for a baptism? Admirable both for the quality of its execution and for its state of preservation — it has retained its lid! — it is a rare testimony to the production of enamelled glass during the French Renaissance. The Musée d’Écouen devoted an exhibition to these objects in 2022, created by glass artists working between Venice and France, and which are sometimes difficult to distinguish…