FIRE FLOWERS PENCIL CASE

Brilliant fireworks are conjured up by this magnificent binding that originally covered La Déclamation Théâtrale (1766), a didactic poem by the prolific Claude J. Dorat. 

The scion of a wealthy French family, Claude Dorat (1743–1780) turned away from an expected career in law for a life in the arts. Also known as “le Chevalier Dorat,” he was renowned as a musketeer, a bon vivant and a “petit maître” (minor master) by his contemporaries.

Dorat was frequently scorned by critics but persisted in producing an explosion of madrigals, odes, epistles, poems and erotic stories. He was rumoured to have ensured the success of his plays by buying up all the seats with his own money and he died, penniless, in 1780 after squandering his family fortune. Though his legacy is not that of a major master, one cannot help but admire his incandescent desire to create.

Now this design is available as a sturdy pencil box with a secure magnetic closure and a removable inner tray for smaller items.

Size: 220mm x 30mm x 68mm