Lot Essay
This beaker is based on a Louis XIV gold beaker from the Puiforcat collection, now at the Musée du Louvre, illustrated in Gérard Mabille, La Collection Puiforcat Donation de Stavros S. Niarchos au Département des Objets d'Art Orfèvrerie du XVII au XIX siècle, 1994, illus. pp. 25, 41, fig. 1.