Lot 3
3
A CONTINENTAL SILVER WINE COOLER

Details
A CONTINENTAL SILVER WINE COOLER
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BEARING SPURIOUS MARKS FOR PARIS, 1784

After a design by Meissonnier, baluster form, with two mermaid handles holding snakes, repousse and chased overall with mythological scenes of dancing maidens and Bacchic festivities, the footrim chased with ovolo, the rim chased with a tied reed band, marked under base--11 3/8in.(29cm.) high
(92oz., 2875gr.)
Provenance

Lot Essay

An identical wine cooler, bearing spurious marks for Thomas Germain, is illustrated in "Des Faux" in Jaques Helft, Nouveaux Poincons, Paris, 1980, p. 255. An example bearing spurious marks for Angers, 1758, was sold from the Meyer de Schauensee Collection, Christie's, New York, April 18, 1991, lot 1.