Lot 212
  • 212

Four pieces of Provincial Louis XV and Louis XVI silver, Bordeaux, 1722, c. 1760, 1781

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Silver
  • diameter of salver 12in.
  • 30.5cm
comprising a marriage bowl with foliate handles, engraved 'M. Coat', 1722, also with discharge for 1738-40
a ten-sided salver with gadroon rim, David Herbert, c. 1760
an oval dish with shell and scroll rim, Jean Franรงois II Jouet, 1781
and an oval sugar bowl chased with flower garlands, twin strawberry finial, 1781

Condition

cup repaired at handles, wear to sugar bowl and signs of old work behind feet, otherwise good
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Catalogue Note

The sugar bowl may be by Nicolas Francois Ghislain joseph Lestarguy, who made one with the same feet and finial in the Wentworth Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, see Dennis No. 430. p. 277.