Lot 127
  • 127

Poêlon couvert à deux anses en argent par Gabriel Mestre, Bordeaux, 1785-1786

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description

  • Poêlon couvert à deux anses en argent par Gabriel Mestre, Bordeaux, 1785-1786
  • Les armes sont celles de la famille Briçonnet alliée à une autre famille.
  • later engraved armorials
  • Long. avec le manche 38,5 cm, 1.247 gr. sans le manche ; 15in long over handle, 40oz excluding handle
le couvercle à prise en grenade sur terrasse feuillagée, le corps et le couvercle gravés postérieurement aux armes de la famille Briçonnet

Condition

In overall good condition. Some usual scratches and dents. Marks: inside the cover, charge and jurande legible, maker partly legible. Finial apparently unmarked. Discharge mark on the rim. Under the body, jurande very legible, maker and charge legible; on the neck, discharge legible. Unusual piece, good quality. The handles nicely chased.
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