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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN
A FINE LOUIS XV SILVER EWER AND BASIN
MARK OF JACQUES DUGUAY, PARIS, 1765
Details
A FINE LOUIS XV SILVER EWER AND BASIN
Mark of Jacques Duguay, Paris, 1765
The baluster ewer on spreading circular foot, chased with scroll reserves enclosing swans and with flutes, scrolls, foliage and a vacant rococo cartouche, similarly chased below the rim and on the raised hinged cover, with double scroll handle, surmounted by bullrushes and with scroll finial; the shaped oblong basin chased with a similar band and with molded rim, each with gadrooned borders, marked on ewer foot and cover and beneath basin, and on rims
The ewer 9¼in. (23.7cm.) high, the basin 14in. long; 52oz. (1617gr.) (2)
Mark of Jacques Duguay, Paris, 1765
The baluster ewer on spreading circular foot, chased with scroll reserves enclosing swans and with flutes, scrolls, foliage and a vacant rococo cartouche, similarly chased below the rim and on the raised hinged cover, with double scroll handle, surmounted by bullrushes and with scroll finial; the shaped oblong basin chased with a similar band and with molded rim, each with gadrooned borders, marked on ewer foot and cover and beneath basin, and on rims
The ewer 9¼in. (23.7cm.) high, the basin 14in. long; 52oz. (1617gr.) (2)
Provenance
Sotheby's, Geneva, May 15, 1984, lot 222
Literature
Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Dictionary of Silver, London, 1986, no. 1735
The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 15, p. 28
The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 15, p. 28
Exhibited
"The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection", Christie's, London, 1989, no. 15