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Lot 154
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Mathias Corsin French silver spirit burner

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • silver, wood
  • 23.5cm, 9 ¼ in overall width
triform, on scroll supports, engraved with accollé armorials, detachable wick holder, cover and wick mounts  screw-on turned wood handle

Literature

Exh. Cat. Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, 2011, no. 157A

Catalogue Note

The arms of Jacquelot de Chantemerle (Bourbonnais) and probably those of du Bois de Saint-VIncent (Provence).
Mathias Corsin, born at Lille on 23 February 1725, was the son of Pierre Mathias and his wife, Marie-Marguerite-Rufine (née Saint Paul). He opened a studio in the Lille flower market in 1754 from where he later moved to premises in rue de la Clef, Lille. In October 1770 he married, probably as his second wife, the widow of François-Joseph Marcy. Corsin was a member of the Lille goldsmiths’ guild until 1791.