MARK OF CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS FILASSIER, PARIS, 1704

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A LOUIS XIV SILVER CRUET FRAME
MARK OF CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS FILASSIER, PARIS, 1704
Oval, on four scroll feet, the plain bombé body applied on the shoulder with a band of gadroons repeated on the upper rim, and at each end with a Ceres mask, the detachable support with reeded border and chased in centre with a festoon, the later glass bottles with caps chased with gadroons and bud finial, engraved in centre with accollé coats-of-arms, marked underneath with charge, date-letter (L) and maker; inside with maker twice and control decharge (crowned E with two pellets); outside and on back of the four feet with maker; on detachable support: maker, verification (fly) and countermark for low standard (ciborium); on bottle caps: maker, verification (fly) and countermark for low standard (ciborium); painted in black inside bottle caps with David-Weill inventory number 'DW 50⁄56'
7 7⁄8 in. (20 cm.) long
25 oz. 17 dwt. (805 gr.)

Provenance

David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris, inv. no. DW 5056.
The Collection of the Late D. David-Weill; Ader and Picard, 4 June 1971, part I, lot 21.
with Jacques Helft, Paris, 1972.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.

Literature

The Connoisseur, May 1971, p. 59, advertisement for the David-Weill Collection sale- illustrated

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louis XIV: Exposition organisée au profit de la Sauvegarde de Versailles, May to October 1960, no. 337.

Conditions of sale

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Ensayo del lote

Claude-François Filassier became master in 1684. He sponsored his son Claude-Michel Filassier in 1713. Although recorded in Henri Nocq, Le Poinçon De Paris, 1926, Vol. 2, p. 171, his mark is not illustrated.

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