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A GROUP OF LOUIS XV TABLE SILVER

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A GROUP OF LOUIS XV TABLE SILVER

Comprising:

Six fiddle pattern tablespoons with rattail bowls, engraved with a coat-of-arms and coronet, apparently Paris, 1770
Six fiddle pattern table forks engraved with the same arms, ?1771
Two coquille pattern table forks, engraved with monogram within a wreath and a vicomte's coronet, maker's mark of Pierre Deshays of Cany, Le Havre, circa 1788 (Claude Gerard Cassan, Les orfèvres de Normandie, 1980, p. 157)
A fiddle and thread pattern table fork, engraved with accolé coats-of-arms with a vicomte's coronet, maker's mark of Edme-Pierre Balzac, Paris, 1767
Five fiddle and thread pattern table forks, maker's mark of Jean-Pierre Desjardins, Paris, 1798-1809
(54oz., 1683gr.) (20)