MARK OF ANTOINE BOULLIER, PARIS, 1786

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A LOUIS XVI PARCEL-GILT SILVER EWER
MARK OF ANTOINE BOULLIER, PARIS, 1786
On spreading foot, the vase-shaped body applied on the lower body with palm leaves and on the shoulder with a silver band of scrolling acanthus leaves, the hinged cover with bud finial, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a coronet, marked on foot and cover
11 ½ in. (29.5 cm.) high
26 oz. 11 dwt. (826 gr.)

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Lot Essay

Antoine Boullier was one of the leading silversmiths working in the late 18th century. Like François-Thomas Germain, Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers, Louis Lenhendrick and Robert Joseph Auguste he was held in high esteem by his contemporaries and was commissioned to execute part of a large dinner-service for Catherine the Great, a tureen from which is on view at the Hermitage. Further examples of his work include part of the dinner-service made with Robert-Joseph Auguste for Count Creutz, now part of the Swedish Royal Collection and a dressing-table service made for Vladimir Borosovitch, General Prince Galitzin and his wife Natalya Petrovna daughter of Count Chernishev who married in 1766 (Christie's, London, 7 June 2011, lot 206).

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