Jacques-Henri Alberti pair of French silver-gilt sugar sifters

Reeded Fiddle pattern, armorial engraved terminals with supporters and coronets

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 162

marks pretty good, apart form light wear to highlight condition is good, colour nice, arms good.
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Jacques-Henri Alberti was born in 1730.  In 1764 he became a master and a year later he married Catherine-Salomé Emmerich.  Between 1756 and 1764 he was a partner of Jean-Louis Imlin III, probably as a journeyman.  Alberti, who headed Imlin’s workshop from 1769 to 1780, died in 1795.

The arms are probably those of des MOULINS de L'ISLE, of Normandy. Ref: "Armorial Général" by J.B Rietstap, vol II, page 272