拍品專文
A pair of similiar Strasbourg serving trowels is in the Musée des Artes Decoratifs and illustrated in Gerard Mabille, Orfèvrerie Française des XVIe XVIIe XVIIIe siècles, Paris, 1984, no. 361.
細節
A LOUIS XVI SILVER-GILT SERVING TROWEL AND A PAIR OF LOUIS XV SILVER SUGAR TONGS
STRASBOURG, CIRCA 1780, MAKER'S MARK OF FRANÇOIS-DANIEL IMLIN; THE TONGS PARIS, 1767, MAKER'S MARK OF CHARLES-FRANÇOIS LAUTRAN
The trowel with rounded triangular blade engraved with a band of scrolls and with turned ebonized handle, marked on reverse and with later control marks--7¾in. (19.5cm.) long; the tongs with reeded tapering handles and baluster finial, engraved with a monogram, fully marked; struck with the charge and discharge of Jean-Jacques Prevost--7¼in. (18.5cm.) long
(Gross weight 3oz.)
STRASBOURG, CIRCA 1780, MAKER'S MARK OF FRANÇOIS-DANIEL IMLIN; THE TONGS PARIS, 1767, MAKER'S MARK OF CHARLES-FRANÇOIS LAUTRAN
The trowel with rounded triangular blade engraved with a band of scrolls and with turned ebonized handle, marked on reverse and with later control marks--7¾in. (19.5cm.) long; the tongs with reeded tapering handles and baluster finial, engraved with a monogram, fully marked; struck with the charge and discharge of Jean-Jacques Prevost--7¼in. (18.5cm.) long
(Gross weight 3oz.)
來源
the trowel; A la Vieille Cité, Paris 1963
the tongs; Henri Baur, Paris, 1955
the tongs; Henri Baur, Paris, 1955