Lot n° 9
Estimation :
6000 - 8000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 22 100EUR
PARIS 1735 - 1736 - Lot 9
PARIS 1735 - 1736
Covered silver bowl, the body plain, the lid molded with ovals and interlacing motifs on the knob and ears. The doucine lid is engraved with a frieze of flowery scrolls on an amati background, followed by alternating smooth and engraved twisted ribs, framed by amati. The ears feature the so-called "dolphin ear" design. The button features a portrait of a woman in profile: Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1707 to 1714, based on a medal or medallion from this period, when she reigned as the last monarch of the Stuart dynasty.
Master goldsmith: Antoine BERTIN, received in 1700
Weight: 866g - diameter with ears: 32.2cm - without ears: 18.8cm
Hallmarks: on the reverse of the bowl, under the lid knob and master goldsmith's hallmark in the amati of the ear decoration.
Condition: small dent on the body
Provenance: Former collection of
Former collection of Madame Henri Hallé, reproduced in Madame Faith Dennis' Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver published in 1960, in Volume 1 under number 51 page 62 and in Volume 2 under number 51 page 39.
Inventory number on reverse: 2846.
Exhibition:
Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 18 to September 18, 1938.
Special thanks to Mr. Daniel Renaud for identifying the cast of the coin on the button.
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