MARK OF CLAUDE ANTOINE CHARVET, PARIS, 1761-1763

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV SILVER DOUBLE SALT-CELLARS
MARK OF CLAUDE ANTOINE CHARVET, PARIS, 1761-1763
Each oval, on serpentine base with four scroll feet, later engraved on each end with two coats-of-arms accolé below a coronet, with two shell-form hinged covers and silver-gilt interiors, each marked three times on underside with maker's mark, date-letter (X and Y), and charge, further marked at one end of body near engraving with maker's mark, the covers each marked with charge, date-letter (Y and Z) and maker's mark
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) long
25 oz. 16 dwt. (802 gr.)

Provenance

Richard Wallace (1818-1890).
Anonymous sale; Baudouin, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 14 June 1946, lot 80.
Anonymous sale; Baudouin, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 15 December 1948, lot 52.
with Jean-Louis Bonnefoy, Paris, July 1975.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.

Literature

H. Nocq in Le Poinçon de Paris, Paris, 1926, vol. 1, p. 244, illustrated as belonging to Richard Wallace.

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Lot Essay

This model of salt-cellars was particular popular for a period of approximately twenty years during the height of the Rococo with the first example recorded being by Pierre-Ayme Joubert dated 1748 (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 48.187.380, bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948) and one of the last dated 1767 by Edme-Pierre Balzac (now in the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, N°inv. 26878).

For another comparable pair of double salt-cellars by Louis-Joseph Lenhendrick dated 1756, see The Blaquier-Arrieta Collection Part I, lot 12.

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