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A FRENCH LOUIS XV CRUET
by Julien Boulogne-Petit (Nocq, p. 320), the bottle-holders by Jean-François Balzac (Nocq, p. 61), Paris, 1765-1766
Shaped-oval, on four curved bracket-feet, the border cast with scrolls and applied with swags of berried foliage, terminating in two handles formed as vines with grapes and olives, held by lions masks, the tray engraved with foliage and flowers and fitted with three unscrewable openwork bottle-holders with applied pendant swags, holding two later cut-glass bottles, each with pierced cover and flower-shaped finial, and a later cut-glass bowl - 38 cm long
(3,615 gr) (3)
by Julien Boulogne-Petit (Nocq, p. 320), the bottle-holders by Jean-François Balzac (Nocq, p. 61), Paris, 1765-1766
Shaped-oval, on four curved bracket-feet, the border cast with scrolls and applied with swags of berried foliage, terminating in two handles formed as vines with grapes and olives, held by lions masks, the tray engraved with foliage and flowers and fitted with three unscrewable openwork bottle-holders with applied pendant swags, holding two later cut-glass bottles, each with pierced cover and flower-shaped finial, and a later cut-glass bowl - 38 cm long
(3,615 gr) (3)