Lot 148
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV SILVER SALT CELLARS

Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV SILVER SALT CELLARS
MAKER'S MARK OF CLAUDE-ANTOINE CHARVET, PARIS, 1764

Oval, on spreading scroll base, engraved with a coat-of-arms within fronds and surmounted by a coronet, marked under base and on foot; with the charge and discharge of Jean-Jacques Prevost, also struck with later control marks--3 1/2in. (8.9cm.) long
(6oz., 192gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

For the correct version of this maker's mark, see Nocq,
Le Poincon de Paris, 1968, vol. V, "Errata et Addenda", p. 9, no. 244.