Jeux Artistiques Persian Miniature Persp Adj DSC05224
March 2021 Update: I posted this to the group to complement Mike's comment on Genest's cutting style of Turner's Slave Ship and because it fits loosely with the Oriental Images theme. The additions in the comments of two of Pierre's jigsaws - especially the Japanese Vera strengthen the Oriental theme from our Friday lecture.
Nov 2017, when the BCD meetings theme was Trains & The Orient:
I may have over-stretched this in using the perspective correct tool. Definitely one of the 'best-in-show' in my view, this is a Jeux Artistiques jigsaw of a Persian miniature, which seems to be showing an al fresco meal being prepared in a railed enclosure, watched by hungry diners. Bronwen, do you know anything more about it - I know it's one of your favourite makers?
Fabulous cutting in the white margins of this print - dissected corners, interrupted edges, split sockets and knobs, and many pieces meeting at a point. Cutting styles also vary in different areas - like the stepped cutting around the edges of tiles in the floor.
Jigasaurus has two examples, both from Jacques Velu. The brand is rare, and believed to have been in production in the period 1953-1981.
www.thejigasaurus.com/jigasaurus/v/jeux_artistiques/
One of these is a very similar 800pc. It was sold by former celebrated Paris toy shop "Le Nain Bleu", and features a painting by the Persian artist Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (c.1450–c.1535).
Jeux Artistiques Persian Miniature Persp Adj DSC05224
March 2021 Update: I posted this to the group to complement Mike's comment on Genest's cutting style of Turner's Slave Ship and because it fits loosely with the Oriental Images theme. The additions in the comments of two of Pierre's jigsaws - especially the Japanese Vera strengthen the Oriental theme from our Friday lecture.
Nov 2017, when the BCD meetings theme was Trains & The Orient:
I may have over-stretched this in using the perspective correct tool. Definitely one of the 'best-in-show' in my view, this is a Jeux Artistiques jigsaw of a Persian miniature, which seems to be showing an al fresco meal being prepared in a railed enclosure, watched by hungry diners. Bronwen, do you know anything more about it - I know it's one of your favourite makers?
Fabulous cutting in the white margins of this print - dissected corners, interrupted edges, split sockets and knobs, and many pieces meeting at a point. Cutting styles also vary in different areas - like the stepped cutting around the edges of tiles in the floor.
Jigasaurus has two examples, both from Jacques Velu. The brand is rare, and believed to have been in production in the period 1953-1981.
www.thejigasaurus.com/jigasaurus/v/jeux_artistiques/
One of these is a very similar 800pc. It was sold by former celebrated Paris toy shop "Le Nain Bleu", and features a painting by the Persian artist Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (c.1450–c.1535).