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Lot 112
  • 112

Navette à encens miniature en argent par Louis-Lazare Martin, Marseille, vers 1750

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 EUR
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Description

  • Navette à encens miniature en argent par Louis-Lazare Martin, Marseille, vers 1750
  • Long. 5,5 cm ; 34 g ; 2 1/4 in, 1oz 18dwt
de forme ovale, reposant sur un piédouche, le couvercle à bouton, (marque à l'encre PJB T 150 et étiquette PJB 85)

Literature

Raymond Jourdan-Barry, Les Orfèvres de la Généralité d'Aix-en-Provence, 1974, pl. XV.

P. Fuhring, M. Bimbenet-Privat, A. Kugel, Orfèvrerie française, la collection Jourdan-Barry, J. Kugel, 2005, n° 222.

 

Condition

In overall good condition. Usual scratches. Marks: only maker, legible on cover. Rare piece possibly made for a game to train altar-boys.
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